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The  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant 
A  Battle   of  the   Revolution 

October  I0th,  1774 


Biographical  Sketches  of  the 
Men  Who  Participated 


By 

Mrs.  Livia  Nye  Simpson-Poffenbarger 


The  State  Gazette,  Publisher 

Point  Pleasant,  West  Virginia 

1909 


Dedication 


This  little    volume    is  dedicated   to  the    memory    of  the  brave 

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colonists  who,  successful  at  the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  bad  fought 
the  opening-  battle  of  the  Revolution,  in  preserving-  the  right  arm  of 
Virginia  for  the  struggle  with  the  Mother  Country;  thus  making- 
possible  the  blessings  of  liberty  we  now  enjoy  as  a  Nation. 

MRS.  LIVIA  NYE  SIMPSON-POFFENBARGER. 


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Copyright,  1909, 

By 
Mrs.  Livia  Nye  Simpson-Poffenbarger. 


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Battle  of  Point  Pleasant. 


Andrew  Lewis,  who  command- 
ed the  colonial  troops  in  the  Bat- 
tle of  Point  Pleasant,  October 
10,  1774,  was  the  son  of  John 
Lewis  and  Margaret  Lynn  Lew- 
is, his  wife. 

John  Lewis  was  of  Scotch  Irish 
descent,  having  been  born  in 
France,  1673,  where  his  ances- 
tors had  taken  refuge  from  the 
persecution  following  the  assas- 
sination of  Henry  IV.  He  mar- 
ried Margaret  Lynn,  the  daugh- 
ter of  the  "Laird  of  Loch  Lynn, " 
of  Scotland,  and  emigrated  to 
Ireland,  thence  to  America 
in  1729,  and  became  the  founder 
of  Staunton,  Virginia.  Here,  he 
planted  a  colony  and  reared  a 
family  that  have  given  luster  to 
American  History. 

Governor  Gooch,  of  Williams- 
burg,  then  the  seat  of  Govern- 
ment of  Virginia,  was  the  per- 
sonal friend  of  Mrs.  Lewis'  fath- 


er and  hence  granted  her  sons, 
together  with  one  Benjamin  Bur- 
den a  land  warrant  for  500,000 
acres  of  land  in  the  James  and 
Shenandoah  Valleys,  with  the 
proviso  that  they  were  to  locate 
one  hundred  families  within  ten 
years.  They  induced  their 
friends  from  Scotland  and  the 
north  of  Ireland,  and  the  Scotch 
Irish  of  Pennsylvania,  to  emi- 
grate to  Augusta  County,  Vir- 
ginia. In  her  diary,  Mrs.  Lewis 
says:  "It  sounded  like  the  gath- 
ering of  the  clans  to  hear  the 
names  of  these  settlers  viz:  Mc- 
Kees,  McCues,  McCampbells, 
McClungs,  McKouns,  Caruthers, 
Stuarts,  Wallaces,  Lyles,  Pax- 
tons,  Prestons  andGrisbys." 

We  quote  the  following  from 
the  Ohio  Archaeological  and  His- 
torical Quarterly,  July,  1903,  pp. 
288,  289,  290 : 

"When    John     Randolph    said 


that  Pennsylvania  had  produced 
but  two  great  men — Benjamin 
Franklin,  of  Massachusetts,  and 
Albert  Gallatin,  of  Switzerland- 
he  possibly  did  not  know  that  the 
best  blood  of  his  own  State  was 
that  of  the  Scotch-Irish  people 
who  went  down  from  Pennsylva- 
nia and  settled  in  the  Valley. 
He  likely  did  not  know  that  the 
great  and  good  Dr.  Archibald 
Alexander,  the  founder  of  Lib- 
erty Hall,  now  Washington  and 
Lee  University  (so  much  loved 
by  Washington,)  the  very  seat  of 
culture  and  power  of  the  Shen- 
andoah  and  James,  the  greatest 
factor  of  the  State's  prowess, 
was  a  Pennsylvanian.  He  possi 
bly  did  not  know  that  Dr.  Gra- 
ham, the  first  president  ot  this 
institution,  was  from  Old  Pax- 
tang;  that  many  of  the  families 
whose  names  are  in  the  pantheon 
of  old  Dominion  achievement,  the 
families  that  give  Virginia  her 
prominence  ,in  the  sisterhood  of 
States,  had  their  American  ori- 
gin in  Pennsylvania — in  the 
Scotch-Irish  reservoir  of  the 
Cumberland  Valley — the  Mc- 
Dowells, the  Pattersons,  the 
McCormacks,  Ewings,  McCor- 
cles,  Prestons,  McCunqs,  Craigs, 
McCulloughs,  Simpsons,  Stew- 
arts, Moffats,  Irwins,  Hunters, 
Blairs,  Elders,  Grahams,  Fin- 
leys,  Trimbles,  Rankins,  and 
hundreds  of  others,  whose 
achievements  mark  the  pathway 
of  the  world's  progress.  John 


Randolph  possibly  did  not  know 
that  the  first  Declaration  of  In- 
dependence by  the  American 
patriots  was  issued  by  the  mem- 
bers of  Hanover  Church  out 
there  in  Dauphin  county,  when 
on  June  4th,  1774,  they  declared 
"that  in  the  event  Great  Britain 
attempting  to  force  unjust  laws 
upon  us  by  the  strength  of  Arms, 
our  cause  we  leave  to  heaven  and 
our  rifles."  This  declaration 
was  certainly  carried  to  Meck- 
lenburg1 to  give  the  sturdy  peo- 
ple of  that  region  inspiration  for 
the  strong  document  issued  by 
them  a  year  later,  and  which 
gave  Jefferson  a  basis  for  the 
Declaration  of  1776.  There  was 
much  moving  from  Pennsylva- 
nia into  Virginia  and  North  Car- 
olina before  the  Revolution,  and 
Hanover  Presbytery  in  the  Val- 
ley was  largely  made  up  of  peo- 
ple from  Pennsylvania,  whose 
petition  of  ten  thousand  names 
for  a  free  church  in  a  free  land, 
made  in  1785,  was  the  force  back 
of  Jefferson's  bill  for  religious 
tolerance,  a  triumph  for  freedom 
that  has  always  been  considered 
a  Presbyterian  victory  by  the 
Scotch-Irish  of  America. 

We  know  that  Dr.  Sankey  of 
Hanover  Church  was  a  minister 
in  Hanover  Presbytery,  and  that 
be  was  followed  into  Virginia  by 
large  numbers  of- the  Hanover 
congregation,  who  kept  up  a  con- 
stant stream  into  the  Valley.  By 
the  way,  two  settlements  were 


made  by  this  congregation  in 
Ohio.  Col.  Rogers,  Gov.  Bush- 
nel's  secretary,  derives  his  de- 
scent from  them.  The  popula- 
tion of  North  Carolina  at  the  out- 
break of  the  Revolution  was 
largely  made  up  of  Scotch-Irish 
immigrants  from  Pennsylvania 
and  the  Virginia  Valley  who  had 
a  public  school  system  before  the 
war.  These  were  the  people 
who  stood  with  the  Rev.  David 
Caldwell  on  the  banks  of  the  Al- 
amance  May  16th,  1771,  and  re- 
ceived the  first  volley  of  shot 
fired  in  the  contest  for  Independ- 
ence. This  same  blood  coursed 
the  veins  of  the  patriot  army 
with  Lewis  at  Point  Pleasant,  the 
first  battle  of  the  Revolutionary 
War,  fought  October  10,  1774, 
Lord  Dunmore  having  no  doubt 
planned  the  attack  by  the  Indians 
to  discourage  the  Americans 
from  further  agitation  of  the  then 
pending  demand  for  fair  treat- 
ment of  the  American  Colonies 
at  the  hands  of  Great  Britian. 
It  was  this  blood  that  coursed 
the  veins  of  those  courageous 
people  who,  having  survived  the 
Kerr's  creek  massacre,  were 
carried  to  a  Shawnee  village  in 
Ohio,  and  on  being  bantered  to 
sing  by  the  Indians  in  their  cruel 
sport,  sang  Rouse's  version  of 
one  of  the  Psalms.  "Unappalled 
by  the  bloody  scene,"  says  the 
Augusta  historian,  "through 
which  they  had  already  passed, 
and  the  fearful  tortures  awaiting 


them,  within  the  dark  wilderness 
of  forest,  when  all  hope  of  rescue 
seemed  forbidden;  undaunted 
by  the  fiendish  revelings  of  their 
savage  captors,  they  sang  aloud 
with  the  most  pious  ferver — 

"On  Babel's  stream  we  sat  and  wept  wbeii 

/ion  we  thought  on, 
In  midst  thereof  we  hanged  our  harps  the 

willow  trees  among. 
For  then  a  song  required   they  who  did   us 

captive  bring, 
Our  spoilers    called   for  mirth   and    said,    a 

song  of  /ion  sing." 

It  was  this  blood  that  fought 
the  battle  of  King's  Mountain, 
which  victory  gave  the  patriots 
the  courage  that  is  always  in 
hope;  it  was  the  winning  force  at 
Cowpens,  at  Guilford,  where 
Rev.  Samuel  Houston  discharged 
his  rifle  fourteen  times,  once  for 
each  ten  minutes  of  the  battle. 
These  brave  hearts  were  in  every 
battle  of  the  Revolution,  from 
Point  Pleasant  in  1774  to  the  vic- 
tory of  Wayne  at  the  Maumee 
Rapids  twenty  years  later,  for 
the  War  of  Independence  con- 
tinued in  the  Ohio  Country  after 
the  treaty  of  peace.  And  yet, 
after  all  this  awful  struggle  to 
gain  and  hold  for  America  the 
very  heart  of  the  Republic,  one 
of  the  gentlemen  referred  to  by 
Mr.  Randolph  wrote  pamphlets 
in  which  he  derided  as  murder- 
ers the  courageous  settlers  of 
our  blood  on  the  occasions  they 
felt  it  necessary  to  "remove"  In- 
dians with  their  long  rifles.  Af- 
ter all  the  struggle,  he  too  would 
have  made  an  arrangement  with 


England  by  which  the  Ohio  river 
would  have  been  the  boundary 
line." 

These  were  the  people  who  in 
coming"  to  America  had  not  only 
secured  for  themselves  that  per- 
sonal religious  freedom  of  a 
church  without  a  Bishop  and  ul- 
timately a  state  without  a  King, 
but  they  became  recruits  in  the 
Army  of  Andrew  Lewis,  the  hero 
of  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant, 
and  like  many  of  their  country- 
men, continued  in  the  army, 
(those  who  had  not  met  the  fate 
of  battle,)  and  became  the  flower 
of  Virginia's  Colonial  Army. 

The  Status  of  the    Battle    of   Point 
Pleasant. 

While  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleas- 
ant has  always  been  conceded  to 
have  been  the  most  terrific  con- 
flict ever  waged  between  the 
white  man  and  the  Indian,  its  full 
significance  has  not  been  made 
the  text  of  American  history. 
We  quote  however,  from  a  few 
of  the  American  writers,  show- 
ing their  estimate  of  it. 

Roosevelt,  in  "The  Winning-  of 
the  West,"  Vol.  II,  chap.  2,  says: 
"Lord  Dunmore's  War,  waged 
by  Americans  for  the  good  of 
America,  was  the  opening-  act  in 
the  drama  whereof  the  closing- 
scene  was  played  at  Yorktown. 
It  made  possible  the  two  fold 
character  of  the  Revolutionary 
War,  wherein  on  the  one  hand 
the  Americans  won  by  conquest 


and  colonization,  new  lands  for 
their  children,  and  on  the  other 
wrought  out  their  national  inde- 
pendence of  the  British  King." 

Kercheval's  History  of  the 
Valley,  p.  120,  says:  "Be  it  re- 
membered, then,  that  this  Indian 
war  was  but  a  portico  to  our  rev- 
olutionary war,  the  fuel  for  which 
was  then  preparing,  and  which 
burst  into  a  flame,  the  ensuing- 
year.  Neither  let  us  forget  that 
the  Earle  of  Dunmore  was  at  this 
time  governor  of  Virginia;  and 
that  he  was  acquainted  with  the 
views  and  designs  of  the  British 
Cabinet,  can  scarcely  be  doubted. 
What  then,  suppose  ye,  would  be 
the  conduct  of  a  man  possessing 
his  means,  filling  a  high,  official 
station,  attached  to  the  British 
government,  and  master  of  con- 
sumate  diplomatic  skill." 

Dr.  John  P.  Hale,  in  writing  of 
the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant, 
says,  in  the  History  of  the  Great 
Kanawha  Valley,  Vol.  I,  pp.  114, 
115,  "Early  in  the  spring  of  1774, 
it  was  evident  that  the  Indians 
were  combining  for  aggressive 
action.  *  *  *  It  was  decided 
that  an  army  of  two  divisions 
should  be  organized  as  speedily 
as  practicable — one  to  be  com- 
manded by  Gen.  Lewis,  and  the 
other  by  Lord  Dunmore,  in  per- 
son. *  *  *  Gen.  Lewis'army 
rendezvoused  at  Camp  Union 
(LewisburgJ  about  September 
1st,  and  was  to  March  from  there 
to  the  mouth  of  Kanawha;  while 


Gov.  Dunmore  was  to  go  the 
northwest  route,  over  the  Brad- 
dock  trail,  by  way  of  Fort  Pitt, 
and  thence  down  the  Ohio  river 
and  form  a  junction  with  Gen. 
Lewis  at  the  mouth  of  Kanawha. 

The  aggregate 
strength  of  this  southern  divi- 
sion of  the  army  was  about  elev- 
en hundred;  the  strength  of  the 
northern  division,  under  Lord 
Dunmore,  was  about  fifteen  hun- 
dred. On  the  llth  of  September 
Gen.  Lewis  broke  camp,  and, 
with  Captain  Matthew  Arbuckle, 
an  intelligent  and  experienced 
frontiersman,  as  pilot,  marched 
through  a  pathless  wilderness. 
They  reached  Point  Pleasant  on 
the  30th  day  of  September,  after 
a  fatigueing  march  of  nineteen 
days.  Gen.  Lewis  for  several 
days  anxiously  awaited  the  arri- 
val ot  Lord  Dunmore,  who,  by 
appointment,  was  to  have  joined 
him  here  on  the  2nd  of  October. 
Having  no  intelligence  from  him, 
Lewis  dispatched  messengers 
up  the  Ohio  river  to  meet  him, 
or  learn  what  had  become  of 
him. 

Before  his  messengers  return- 
ed, however  three  messengers 
(probably  McCulloch,  Kenton 
and  Girty)  arrived  at  his  camp 
on  Sunday,  the  9th  of  October, 
witn  orders  from  Lord  Dunmore 
to  cross  the  river  and  meet  him 
before  the  Indian  towns  in  Ohio. 
This  is,  substantially,  the  cur- 


rent version  of   matters:   but  au- 
thorities differ. 

Some  say  the  messenger  ar- 
rived on  the  night  of  the  10th, 
after  the  battle  was  fought; 
others  say  they  did  not  arrive 
until  the  llth,  the  day  after  the 
battle,  and  Col.  Andrew  Lewis, 
son  of  Gen.  Andrew  Lewis,  says 
his  father  received  no  communi- 
cation whatever  from  Lord  Dun- 
more  after  he  (Lewis)  left  camp 
Union,  until  after  the  battle  bad 
been  fought,  and  Lewis  of  his 
own  motion,  had  gone  on  into 
Ohio,  expecting  to  join  Dunmore 
and  punish  the  Indians,  when  he 
received  an  order  to  stop  and  re- 
turn to  the  Point.  This  order 
(by  messenger)  Lewis  disre- 
garded, when  Lord  Dunmore 
came  in~person,  and  after  a  con- 
ference and  assurances  from 
Dunmore  that  he  was  about 
negotiating  a  'peace,  Lewis  re- 
luctantly retraced  his  steps.  In 
the  very  excited  state  of  feeling 
then  existing  between  the  col- 
onies and  the  mother  country,  It 
was  but  natural  that  the  sympa- 
thies of  Lord  Dunmore,  a  titled 
English  nobleman,  and  holding 
his  commission  as  governor  of 
Virginia  at  the  pleasure  of  the 
crown,  should  be  with  his  own 
country;  but  it  was  not  only 
strongly  suspected,  but  general- 
ly charged,  that,  while  he  was 
yet  acting  as  governor  of  Vir- 
ginia, and  before  he  had  declar- 
ed himself  against  the  colonies. 


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be  was  unfairly  using1  his  posi- 
tion and  influence  to  the  pre- 
judice of  his  subjects.  * 
According-  to  the  account  of  Col. 
Stewart,  when  the  interview  was 
over  between  Gen.  Lewis  and 
the  messengers  of  Lord  Dun- 
more,  on  the  9th,  Lewis  gave  or- 
ders to  break  camp  at  an  early 
hour  next  morning,  cross  the 
river,  and  take  up  their  march 
towards  the  Indian  towns;  but 
the  fates  had  decreed  otherwise. 
At  the  hour  for  starting-,  they 
found  themselves  confronted  by 
an  army  of  Indian  braves,  eight 
hundred  to  one  thousand  strong, 
in  their  war  paint,  and  com- 
manded by  their  able  and  trust- 
ed leaders,  Cornstalk,  Logan, 
Red  Hawk,  Blue  Jacket  and 
Elinipsico,  and  some  authors 
mention  two  or  three  others. 
Instead  of  a  hard  day's  march- 
ing, Lewis  army  had  a  harder 
day's  fighting — the  important, 
desperately  contested,  finally 
victorious,  and  ever-memorable 
battle  of  Point  Pleasant.  No 
"official  report"  of  this  battle 
has  been  preserved,  or  was  ever 
written,  so  far  as  can  be  learned. 
There  are  several  good  reasons, 
apparently,  for  this  omission. 
In  the  first  place,  the  time,  place 
and  circumstances  were  not  fa- 
vorable for  preparing  a  formal 
official  report.  In  the  second 
place,  Lord  Dunmore,  the  sup- 
erior officer,  to  whom  Gen. 
Lewis  should,  ordinarily,  have 


reported,  was  himself  in  the 
field,  but  a  few  miles  distant, 
and  Gen.  Lewis  was  expecting 
that  the  two  divisions  of  the 
army  would  be  united  within  a 
few  days;  and,  in  the  third  place, 
the  "strained  relations"  between 
the  colonies  and  the  mother 
country  were  such,  and  the  re- 
cent action  of  Gov.  Dunmore  so 
ambiguous,  that  Gen.  Lewis  was 
probably  not  inclined  to  report 
to  him  at  all.'' 


The  same  author,  in  the  same 
volume,  at  pages  122,  128,  129, 
130,  131  and  132,  says:  "Col. 
Stewart,  one  of  the  first  to  write 
about  the  battle,  after  Arbuckle's 
short  account,  was  himself  pres- 
ent, was  well  known  to  Gen. 
Lewis  (and  a  relative  by  mar- 
riage), says  Gen.  Lewis  received 
a  message  from  Gov.  Dunmore, 
on  the  9th,  telling  him  to  cross 
the  Ohio  and  join  him.  Burk, 
and  others,  say  the  messengers 
came  after  the  battle,  and  men- 
tion Simon  Kenton  and  Simon 
Girty  among  the  messengers. 
Col.  Andrew  Lewis  says  his 
father  received  no  communica- 
tion of  any  sort  from  Gov.  Dun- 
more,  until  ordered  to  return 
from  Ohio.  *  *  *  *  It  has 
been  stated  that  there  were  not 
only  suspicions,  but  grave 
charges,  that  Governor  Dunmore 
acted  a  double  part,  and  that  he 
was  untrue  and  treacherous  to 


the  interests  of  the  colon}'  he 
governed.  As  he  is  inseparably 
connected  with  the  campaign 
(often  called  the  Dimmore  War), 
and  its  accompanying  history, 
and  the  inauguration  of  the  Rev- 
olution, it  may  be  well  to  briefly 
aliudex  to  his  official  course  just 
before,  during  and  after  the 
campaign  that  his  true  relations 
to  it,  and  to  the  colony,  may  be 
understood;  and,  also,  to  show- 
that  the  "Revolution"  was  really 
in  progress;  that  this  campaign 
was  one  of  the  important  early 
moves  on  the  historical  chess- 
board, and  that  the  battle  of 
Point  Pleasant  was,  as  generally 
claimed,  the  initiatory  battle  of 
the  great  drama.  In  the  sum- 
mer of  1773.  Governor  Uunmore 
made,  ostensibly,  a  pleasure  trip 
to  Fort  Pitt;  here  he  establish- 
ed close  relations  with  Dr.  Con- 
nally,  making  him  Indian  agent, 
land  agent,  etc.  Connally  was  an 
able  active  and  efficient  man, 
who  thereafter  adhered  to  Dun- 
more  and  the  English  cause.  It 
is  charged  that  Connally  at  once 
began  fomenting  trouble  and  ill- 
feeling  between  the  colonies  of 
Virginia  and  Pennsylvania  in  re- 
gard to  the  western  frontier  of 
Pennsylvania,  then  claimed  by 
both  colonies,  but  held  by  Vir- 
ginia, hoping  by  such  course  to 
prevent  the  friendly  co-operation 
of  these  colonies  against  Eng- 
lish designs;  and,  also  to  incite 
the  Indian  tribes  to  resistance 


of  western  white  encroachments 
upon  their  hunting  grounds,  and 
prepare  the  way  forgetting  their 
co-operation  with  England 
againt  the  colonies,  when  the 
rupture  should  come.  In  De- 
cember, 1773,  the  famous  "cold- 
water  tea"  was  made  in  Boston 
harbor.  In  retaliation  the  Eng- 
lish government  blockaded  the 
port  of  boston,  and  moved  the 
capital  of  the  colony  to  Salem. 
When  this  news  came,  in  1774, 
the  Virginia  assembly,  being  in 
session,  passed  resolutions  of 
sympathy  with  Massachusetts, 
and  strong  disapproval  of  the 
course  of  England;  whereupon 
Governor  Dunmore  peremptori- 
ly dissolved  the  assembly. 
They  met  privately,  opened  cor- 
respondence with  the  other  col- 
onies, and  proposed  co-operation 
and  a  colonial  congress.  On  the 
4th  of  September,  1774,  met,  in 
Philadelphia,  the  first  continen- 
tal congress — Peyton  Randolph, 
of  Virginia,  president;  George 
Washington,  R.  H.  Lee,  Richard 
Bland,  Patrick  Henry,  Benjamin 
Harrison  and  Edmund  Pendle- 
ton  members  from  Virginia. 
They  passed  strong  resolutions; 
among  others;  to  resist  taxation 
and  other  obnoxious  measures; 
to  raise  minute  men  to  forcibly 
resist  coercion;  and,  finally  resol- 
ved to  cease  all  official  inter- 
course with  the  English  govern- 
ment. In  the  meantime,  Dr. 
Connally  had  been  carrying  out 


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the  programme  of  the  northwest. 
He  had  taken  possession  of  the 
fort  at  Fort  Pitt,  and  renamed 
it  Fort  Dunmore;  was  claiming- 
lands  under  patents  from  Gov- 
ernor Dunmore,  and  making  set- 
tlements on  them;  had  been  him- 
self arrested  and  imprisoned  for 
a  time  by  Pennsylvania;  had  the 
Indian  tribes  highly  excited, 
united  in  a  strong  confederacy 
and  threatened  war;  then  came 
the  massacre  of  Indians  above 
Wheeling,  at  Capitina  and  at  Yel- 
low creek,  said  to  have  grown 
out  of  Connally's  orders.  While 
the  continental  congress  was 
passing  the  resolutions  above 
mentioned,  and  which  created  a 
breach  between  the  colonies  and 
the  mother  country  past  healing, 
Governor  Dunmore  and  General 
Lewis  were  organizing  and 
marching  their  armies  to  the 
west.  Instead  of  uniting  the 
forces  into  one  army,  and  march- 
ing1 straight  to  the  Indian  towns 
and  conquering  or  dictating  a 
lasting  peace,  Lord  Dunmore 
took  the  larger  portion  of  the 
army  by  a  long  detour  by  Fort 
Pitt,  and  thence  down  the  Ohio, 
picking  up  on  the  way  Dr.  Con- 
nally  and  Simon  Girty,  whom  he 
made  useful.  At  Fort  Pitt,  it 
is  said,  he  had  held  a  conference 
with  some  of  the  Indian  chiefs, 
and  came  to  some  understanding- 
with  them,  the  particulars  of 
which  are  not  known.  Instead 
of  uniting  with  Lewis  at  the 


mouth  of  Kanawha,  as  had  been 
arranged,  but  which  was  proba- 
bly not  intended,  he  struck  off 
from  the  Ohio  river  at  the  mouth 
of  Hockhocking  and  marched  for 
the  Indian  towns  on  the  Picka- 
way  plains,  without  the  support 
of  Lewis  army,  delaying  long 
enough  for  the  Indians  to  have 
annihilated  Lewis  division  if 
events  had  turned  out  as  Corn- 
stalked  had  planned.  He  (Corn- 
stalk) said  it  was  first  their  in- 
tention to  attack  the  "Long 
Knives"  and  destroy  them,  as 
they  crossed  the  river,  and  this 
olan  would  have  been  carried 
out,  or  attempted,  but  for  the 
long  delay  of  Lewis1  awaiting 
the  arrival  of  Lord  Dunmore. 
They  afterwards,  upon  consulta- 
tions, changed  their  plans,  and 
determined  to  let  Lewis  cross 
the  river  and  then  ambush  him 
somewhere  near  their  own 
homes,  and  farther  from  his 
(Lewis')  base;  but  the  Indians 
had  no  organized  commissar)7  or 
transportation  a  r  r  a  n  g  e  m  ents, 
and  could  only  transport  such 
amount  of  food  as  each  brave 
could  carry  for  his  own  susten- 
ance; this  was  necessarily,  a  lim- 
ited amount,  and  Lewis'  delay 
in  crossing  had  run  their  rations 
so  short  that  they  were  obliged 
to  cross,  themselves,  and  force 
a  fight,  or  break  camp  and  go  to 
hunting  food.  They  crossed  in 
the  night,  about  three  miles 
above  the  Point,  on  rafts  previ- 


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ously  constructed,  and  expected 
to  take  Lewis'  army  by  surprise; 
and  it  will  be  seen  bow  near  they 
came  to  accomplishing-  it.  It 
was  prevented  by  the  accident  of 
the  early  hunters,  who  were  out 
before  daylight,  in  violation  of 
orders. 

Dr.  Campbell  says  there  was 
considerable  dissatisfaction 
in  Lewis  camp,  for  some 
days  before  the  battle  growing 
out  of  the  manner  of  serving  the 
rations,  and  especially  the  beef 
rations;  the  men  claimed  that 
the  good  and  bad  beef  were  not 
dealt  out  impartially.  On  the 
*Jth,  Gen.  Lewis  ordered  that  the 
poorest  beeves  be  killed  first, 
and  distributed  to  all  alike.  The 
beef  was  so  poor  that  the  rnen 
were  unwilling  to  eat  it,  and,  a1- 
though'it  was  positively  against 
orders  to  leave  camp  without 
permission,  about  one  hundred 
men  started  out  before  day,  next 
morning  (the  10th),  in  different 
directions,  to  hunt  and  provide 
thefr  own  meat.  Many  of  these 
did  not  get  back,  nor  know  of  the 
battle  until  night,  when  it  was 
all  over.  This  was  a  serious  re- 
duction of  the  army  at  such  a 
time. 

Col.  Andrew  Lewis  (son  of 
General  Andrew, )  in  his  account 
of  the  Point  Pleasant  campaign, 
says:  '  'It  is  known  that  Blue  Jack- 
et, a  Shawnee  Chief,  visited  Lord 
Dunmore's  camp,  on  the  9tb,  the 
day  before  the  battle,  and  went 


straight  from  there  to  the  Point, 
and  some  of  them  went  to  con- 
fer with  Lord  Dunmore  immedi- 
ately alter  the  battle.'  It  is  also 
said  that  Lord  Dunmore,  in  con- 
versation with  Dr.  Connally,  and 
others,  on  the  10th,  the  day  of 
the  battle,  remarked  that  "Lewis 
is  probably  having1  hot  work 
about  this  time." 

When  Lewis  had  crossed  the 
river,  after  the  battle,  and  was 
marching-  to  join  Dunmore,  a 
messenger  was  dispatched  to 
him  twice  in  one  day,  ordering 
him  to  stop  and  retrace  his 
steps — the  messenger  ic  each 
instance,  being  the  afterward 
notorious  Simon  Girty.  Gen. 
Lewis  bad,  very  naturally,  be- 
come much  incensed  at  the  con- 
duct of  Lord  Dunmore,  and  topk 
the  high-handed  responsibility — 
advised  and  sanctioned  by  his 
officers  and  men — of  disobeying 
the  order  of  his  superior  in  com- 
mand, and  boldly  marching  on 
towards  his  camp.  When  with- 
in about  two  and  one-half  miles  of 
Lord  Dunmore's  headquarters, 
which  he  called  Camp  Charlotte, 
after  Queen  Charlotte,  wife  of 
his  majesty,  George  III.,  he 
came  out  to  meet  Lewis  in  per- 
son, bringing  with  him  Corn- 
stalk, White  Eyes  (another  noted 
Shawanee  chief),  and  others, 
and  insisted  on  Lewis's  return- 
ing as  he  (Dunmore)  was  nego- 
tiating a  treaty  of  peace  with 
the  Indians-  He  sought  an  in- 


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troduction  to  Lewis'  officers,  and 
paid  them  some  flattering  com- 
pliments, etc.  Evidently  it  did 
not  comport  with  Lord  Dun 
more's  plans  to  have  Gen.  Lewis 
present  at  the  treaty,  to  help  the 
negotiation  by  suggestions,  or  to 
have  the  moral  support  of  his 
army  to  sustain  them.  So  much 
did  Lewis'  army  feel  the  disap- 
pointment and  this  indignity, 
that  Col.  Andrew,  his  son,  says 
that  it  was  with  difficulty  Gen. 
Lewis  could  restrain  his  men 
(not  under  very  rigid  discipline, 
at  best)  from  killing  Lord  Dun- 
more  and  his  Indian  escort. 
But  the  result  of  the  personal 
conference  was  that  Gen,  Lewi?, 
at  last  with  the  utmost  reluctance 
of  himself  and  army,  consented 
to  return,  and  to  disband  his 
army  upon  his  arrival  at  Camp 
Union,  as  ordered. 

Suppose  Lewis  had  attempted 
to  cross  the  river,  and  been  de- 
stroyed, or  had  crossed  and  been 
ambushed  and  demolished  in  the 
forest  thickets  of  Ohio,  or  that 
Cornstalk  had  succeeded,  as  he 
came  so  near  doing,  in  surprising 
him  in  his  own  camp,  on  the  morn- 
ing of  the  10th,  or  after  that;  sup 
pose  the  Indians  bad  succeeded 
in  turning  the  so  evenly  balanced 
scale  in  their  favor,  during  the 
fight,  as  they  came  so  near  doing, 
and  had  annihilated  Lewis' army, 
as  they  might  have  done,  having 
them  penned  up  in  the  angle  of 
two  rivers,  who  can  doubt  in 


view  of  all  the  facts  above  noted, 
that  Lord  Dunmore  would  have 
been  responsible  for  the  disaster? 
Who  can  doubt,  as  it  was,  that 
he  was  responsible  for  the  un- 
necessary sacrifice  of  life,  at  the 
Point,  on  the  loth?  Who  can 
doubt  that,  with  the  two  divisions 
of  the  army  united,  as  per  agree 
ment,  and  Lord  Dunmore  and 
Lewis  acting  in  unison  and  good 
faith,  they  could  have  marched 
to  the  Indian  towns,  and  utterly 
destroyed  them,  or  dictated  a 
favorable  and  lasting  peace,  atvl 
maintained  it  as  long  as  they 
pleased,  by  holding  importer) I 
hostages?  But,  clearly,  the  pol- 
icy of  the  governor  was  dictated 
by  ulterior  and  sinister  motives; 
his  actions  were  not  single-mind- 
ed. Col.  Andrew  Lewis  says: 
"It  was  evidently  the  intention 
-of  the  old  Scotch  villain  to  cut  off 
Gen.  Lewis'  army.'  Burk  the 
historian,  says:  "The  division 
under  Lewis  was  devoted  to  de- 
struction, for  the  purpose  of 
breaking  the  spirit  of  the  Virgin- 
ians." Withers,  Doddridge,  and 
others,  express  the  same  views. 
Gen.  Lewis  and  his  army  were 
convinced  of  the  fact;  Col.  Stew- 
art bad  no  doubt  of  it,  and  nearly 
every  one  who  has  written  on  the 
subject  has  taken  the  same  view 
of  it.  A  few  only  are  willing  to 
give  him  the  benefit  of  a  doubt. 
If  this  design  to  destroy  Lewis' 
army  had  succeeded,  it  is  almost 
certain  that  the  English,  through 


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Lord  Dunmore,  would  have  per- 
fected an  alliance,  offensive  and 
defensive,  with  the  victorious  In- 
dians, against  the  colonies,  and 
every  white  settlement  west  of 
the  Alleghenies  would  proba- 
bly have  been  cut  off.  It 
would  have  been  difficult 
or  impossible,  for  a  time, 
to  raise  another  army  for  the  de- 
fense of  the  western  border;  the 
tory  element  would  have  been 
encouraged  and  strengthened, 
the  revolutionary  element  cor- 
respondingly discouraged,  the 
rebellion!  ?  )  crushed,  and  Lord 
Dunmore  would  have  been  the 
hero  of  the  age.  Upon  what  slen- 
der and  uncertain  tenures  bang 
the  destinies  of  nations,  and  the 
fate  of  individuals!  The  closely- 
won  success  of  Lewis  was  not 
only  an  immediate  victory  over 
the  Indians,  but  a  defeat  of  the 
machinations  of  the  double  deal- 
ing governor,  and  the  projected 
Anglo-Indian  alliance.  If  this 
view  of  it  is  established  the  claim 
of  the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant 
as  being  the  initiatory  battle  of 
the  revolution;  and,  although 
small  in  itself,  when  its  after  re- 
sults and  influences  are  consid- 
ered it  stands  out  in  bold  relief 
as  one  of  the  important  and  de- 
cisive victories  of  history.  A 
few  words  more  and  we  shall  be 
done  with  Lord  Dunmore.  Up- 
on his  return  to  Williamsburg, 
the  Assembly,  upon  his  own  ex- 
parte  statement  of  the  results  of 


the  campaign,  passed  a  vole  of 
thanks  for  his  "valuable  ser- 
vices,' etc.,  which,  it  is  said, 
they  very  much  regretted  when 
they  learned  more  of  the  facts. 
Just  after  the  battle  of  Lexing- 
ton (April  19,  1775),  he  had  all 
the  powder  that  was  stored  in 
the  colonial  magizine  at  Williams- 
burg  secretly  conveyed  on  board 
an  armed  English  vessel  lying 
off  Yorktown,  and  threatened  to 
lay  Williamsburg  in  ashes  at  the 
ii  rst  sign  of  i  n  s  u  r  r  e  c  t  i  o  n. 
Patrick  Henry  raised  a  volun- 
teer force  to  go  down  and  com- 
pel him  (Dunmore)  to  restore 
the  powder;  but  as  this  was  im- 
practicable, he  agreed  to  pay, 
and  did  pay  for  it,  and  then  is- 
sued a  proclamation  declaring 
"One  Patrick  Henry  and  his 
followers  rebels.'  He  had  pre- 
viously threatened  Thomas  Jef- 
ferson with  prosecution  for  trea- 
son, and  had  commenced  pro- 
ceedings. About  this  time,  hav- 
ing previously  sent  his  family  on 
an  English  naval  vessel,  he  made 
bis  own  escape,  by  night,  to  the 
English  fleet  and  commenced  a 
system  of  depredations  along  the 
coast,  burning  houses,  destroy- 
ing crops,  etc.  He  tried  to  bring 
his  scheme  of  Indian  co-opera- 
tion to  bear,  and  sent  a  message 
to  his  old  friend,  Connally,  with 
a  commission  as  Colonel,  and  in- 
structed him  to  secure  the  co- 
operation of  as  many  of  the  west- 
ern militia  commanders  as  possi- 


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ble,  by  large  rewards;  to  form  an 
alliance  with  the  Indians,  collect 
his  forces  at  Fort  Pitt,  and 
march  through  Virginia  and 
meet  him.  Fortunately,  Col. 
Connally  was  captured  and  im- 
prisoned, and  the  scheme  ex- 
posed and  thwarted  He  (Dun- 
more)  issued  a  proclamation 
granting  freedom,  to  all  the 
slaves  who  would  flock  to  his 
standard,  and  protection  to  the 
Tories.  Among  other  acts  of 
violence,  he  burned  Norfolk,  the 
then  largest  and  most  important 
town  in  Virginia.  Upon  his 
flight,  the  Assembly  met  and 
declared  his  office  vacant,  and 
proceeded  to  fill  it;  and,  for  the 
first  time,  Virginia  had  entire 
"home  rule/  Upon  the  petition 
of  citizens  of  Dunmore  county, 
which  had  been  named  in  his 
honor,  the  name  was  abolished, 
and  the  county  called  Shenan- 
doah.  In  1776,  Lord  Dunmore 
and  his  fleet  and  hangers-on 
were  at  Guynne's  Island,  in  the 
Chesapeake  Bay,  where,  as  an 
interesting  example  of  poetic  or 
retributive  justice,  Gen.  Lewis 
in  command  of  the  Virginia 
troops,  attacked,  defeated,  and 
drove  them  off,  with  heavy  loss, 
Gen.  Lewis  himself,  firing  the 
first  gun,  soon  after  which  the 
ex-Governor,  a  sadder  and  wiser 
man  ''left  the  country  for  the 
country's  good." 

It  will  thus  be   seen  that  Dun- 
more,  the  Tory  Governor  of  Vir- 


ginia, knew  that  the  war  of  the 
Revolution  was  inevitable.  John 
Adams  dates  the  opening  of  the 
Revolution  in  1760.  The  people 
had  tired  of  taxation  without  rep- 
resentation. In  1764  we  find  an 
organized  opposition  to  oppres- 
sive taxation  in  Boston.  In  1765, 
was  passed  the  Stamp  Act  and  in 
that  year  was  organized  the  Sons 
of  Liberty.  In  1766  the  Royal 
Artillery  was  in  Boston.  In 
1767,  a  duty  was  imposed  on  tea. 
In  1768  British  troops  were  sent 
to  Boston.  In  1768  in  Virginia 
was  passed  the  non-importation 
agreement,  followed  in  1770  by 
the  Boston  Massacre. 

In  the  Parliament  of  England, 
the  discussion  of  the  taxation  of 
the  colonies  did  not  tend  to  allay 
their  determination  to  thwart  all 
oppression  and  when  George 
III  determined  at  all  odds  to  im- 
pose taxation  the  matter  was  set- 
tled in  the  heart  of  every  loyal 
American,  whether  the  vow  was 
expressed  or  implied.  It  is  well 
authenticated  that,  to  occupy  the 
attention  of  the  colonial  forces 
that  they  might  not  have  so  much 
(time  in  which  to  brood  over  the 
oppression  of  the  mother  coun- 
try,) it  was  necessary  to  incite 
the  Indians  toattact  the  frontiers 
and  so  divert  the  attention  of  the 
colonists  from  their  quarrel  with 
the  mother  country  and  at  the 
same  time  impress  upon  them  a 
feeling  of  dependence  upon  Brit- 
ish arms  and  means  for  the  safe- 


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ty  of  their  lives  and  homes.  Oae 
of  the  quickest  to  avail  himself 
of  this  method  of  resisting  the 
onflow-ing  tide  of  this  demand  for 
Liberty  was  Governor  Dunmore. 

Virginia  had  been  the  first  in 
1764  to  pass  a  Resolution,  defy- 
ing- the  British  authority  as  is 
seen  by  the  following,  introduc- 
ed by  Patrick  Henry,  in  the 
House  of  Burgesses,  and  carried : 

"Resolved,  therefore,  That  the 
General  Assembly  of  this  colony, 
together  with  his  majesty  or 
substitute,  have,  in  their  repre- 
sentative capacity,  the  only  ex- 
clusive right  and  power  to  lay 
taxes  and  impositions  upon  the 
inhabitants  of  this  colony;  and 
that  every  attempt  to  vest  such 
power  in  any  person  or  persons 
whatsoever,  other  than  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  aforesaid,  is  ille- 
gal, unconstitutional,  and  unjust, 
and  has  a  manifest  tendency  to 
destroy  British,  as  well  as  Amer- 
ican, Freedom." 

In  this  same  year  1764,  Pat- 
rick Henry  originated  the  great 
question  which  led  to  the  final 
independence  of  the  United 
States. 

When,  in  January,  1765,  the 
famous  stamp  act  was  passed 
that  for  a  while  stunned  the 
whole  country,  and  confounded 
the  people,  it  was  Virginia,  led 
by  the  matchless  Henry,  that 
stood  forth  to  raise  the  drooping 
spirits  of  the  colonists,  and  it  is 
said  his  election  to  the  house  of 


burgesses  was  with  express  ref- 
erence to  his  opposition  to  the 
stamp  act,  and  the  adoption  of  a 
series  of  resolutions  in  1765, 
chief  among  which  was  the  one 
above  referred  to. 

Upon  the  death  of  Mr.  Henry, 
in  his  private  papers,  was  found 
the  original  manuscript,  embrac- 
ing the  above  Resolution  with 
others,  bearing  the  following 
narrative,  written  on  the  back  of 
it  by  Mr.  Henry,  himself: 

"The  within  resolutions  pass- 
ed the  house  of  burgesses  in 
May,  1765.  They  formed  the 
first  opposition  to  the  stamp  act, 
and  .the  scheme  of  taxing  Ameri- 
ca by  the  British  parliament.' 
All  the  colonies,  either  through 
fear,  or  want  of  opportunity  to 
form  an  opposition,  or  from  in- 
fluence of  some  kind  or  other, 
had  remained  silent.  I  bad  been 
for  the  first  time  elected  a  bur- 
gess, a  few  days  before,  was 
young,  inexperienced,  unac- 
quainted with  the  forms  of  the 
house,  and  the  members  that 
composed  it.  Finding  the  men 
of  weight  averse  to  opposition, 
and  the  commencement  of  the 
tax  at  hand,  and  that  no  person 
was  likely  to  step  forth,  I  deter- 
mined to  venture,  and  alone, 
unadvised,  and  unassisted,  on  a 
blank  leaf  of  an  old  law  book 
wrote  the  within.  Upon  offer- 
ing them  to  the  house,  violent  de- 
bates ensued.  Many  threats 
were  uttered,  and  much  abuse 


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cast  upon  me,  by  the  party  for 
submission.  After  a  long  and 
warm  contest,  the  resolutions 
passed  by  a  very  small  majority, 
perhaps  of  one  or  two  only. 
The  alarm  spread  through  Amer- 
ica with  astonishing  quickness, 
and  the  ministerial  party  were 
overwhelmed.  The  great  point 
of  resistance  to  British  taxation 
was  universally  established  in 
the  colonies.  This  brought  on 
the  war,  which  finally  separated 
the  two  countries,  and  gave  in- 
dependence to  ours." 

The  Virginia  house  of  bur- 
gesses continued  to  pass  resolu- 
tions of  defiance  until  the  session 
of  1768-9,  when  the  house  was 
dissolved  by  the  governor.  This 
house  had  the  merit  of  originat- 
ing that  powerful  engine  of  re- 
sistance, corresponding  commit- 
tees between  the  legislatures  of 
the  colonies,  a  measure  so  nearly 
coeval  in  the  two  states  of  Vir- 
ginia and  Massachusetts  that  it 
would  have  been,  at  that  time 
with  their  slow  methods  of  com- 
munication, impossible  to  have 
borrowed  the  idea  one  from  the 
other;  so  that  they  are  equally 
entitled  to  that  honor,  although 
Mrs.  Warren,  a  Massachusetts 
historian  of  that  time,  admits 
that  the  measure  originated  in 
Virginia. 

It  will  thus  be  seen  that  when 
the  colonists  met  in  Congress  in 
Philadelphia,  September  4,1774, 
that  all  over  Virginia  it  was  be- 


lieved, as  Patrick  Henry  had  so 
eloquently  asserted,  that  the  war 
was  inevitable,  and  the  people 
were  ready  to  voice  his  senti- 
ment, "Let  it  come."  Consider- 
ing all  these  facts,  we  can  well 
credit  Howe,  the  Virginia  histo- 
rian who  says,  "While  Virginia 
was  employed  in  animating  her 
sister  states  to  resistance,  her 
governor  was  employed  in  the 
ignoble  occupation  of  fomenting 
jealousies  and  feuds  between  the 
province,  which  it  should  have 
been  his  duty  to  protect  from 
such  a  calamity,  and  Pennsylva- 
nia, by  raising  difficult  questions 
of  boundary,  and  exciting  the  in- 
habitants of  the  disputed  terri- 
tory to  forswear  allegience  to  the 
latter  province;  hoping  thus,  by 
affording  a  more  immediately 
exciting  question,  to  draw  off  the 
attention  of  these  too  important 
provinces  from  the  encroach- 
ments of  Great  Britain.  This 
scheme,  as  contemptible  as  it 
was  iniquitous,  wholly  failed, 
through  the  good  sense  and 
magnanimity  of  the  Virginia 
council.  Lord  North,  full  of  his 
feeble  and  futile  schemes  of 
cheating  the  colonies  out  of  their 
rights,  took  off  the  obnoxious 
duties  with  the  exception  of  three 
pence  per  pound  on  tea;  and, 
with  the  ridiculous  idea  that  he 
might  fix  the  principle  upon  the 
colonies  by  a  precedent,  which 
should  strip  it  of  all  that  was 
odious,  offered  a  draw-back  equal 


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to  the  import  duty.  This  induc- 
ed the  importation  of  tea  into 
Boston  harbor  which,  being 
thrown  overboard  by  some  of 
the  citizens,  called  down  upon 
their  city  all  the  rigor  of  the  cele- 
brated Boston  port  bill. 

A  draft  of  this  bill  reached  the 
Virginia  legislature  while  in  ses- 
sion; an  animated  protest,  and  a 
dissolution  of  the  assembly  by 
the  governor,  of  course  followed. 
On  the  following  day  the  mem- 
bers convened  in  the  Raleigh 
tavern  and,  in  an  able  and  man- 
ly paper,  expressed  to  their  con- 
stituents and  their  government 
those  sentiments  and  opinions 
which  they  had  not  been  allowed 
to  express  in  a  legislative  form. 
This  meeting  recommended  a 
a  cessation  of  trade  with  the  East 
India  Company,  a  Congress  of 
deputies  from  all  the  colonies, 
'declaring  their  opinion,  that  an 
attack  upon  one  of  the  colonies 
was  an  attack  upon  all  British  in 
A merica, '  and  calling  a  convention 
of  the  people  of  Virginia.  The 
sentiments  of  the  people  accorded 
with  those  of  their  late  delegates; 
they  elected  members  who  met 
in  convention  at  Williamsburg, 
on  the  1st  of  August,  1774. 

This  convention  went  into  a 
detailed  view  of  their  rights  and 
grievances,  discussed  measures 
of  redress  for  the  latter,  and  de- 
clared their  determination  never 
to  relinquish  the  former;  they 
appointed  deputies  to  attend  a 


general  Congress,  and  they  in- 
structed them  how  to  proceed. 
The  Congress  met  in  Philadel- 
phia, on  the  4th  of  September, 
1774. 

While  Virginia  was  engag- 
ed in  her  efforts  for  the  gen- 
eral good,  she  was  not  without 
her  peculiar  troubles  at  home. 
The  Indians  had  been  for  some 
time  waging  a  horrid  war  upon 
the  frontiers,  when  the  indigna- 
tion of  the  people  at  length  com- 
pelled the  reluctant  govenor  to 
take  up  arms,  and  march  to  sup- 
press the  very  savages  he  was 
thought  to  have  encouraged  and 
excited  to  hostility  by  his  intri- 
gues. 

Lord  Dunmore  marched  the 
army  in  two  divisions:  the  one 
under  General  Andrew  Lewis 
he  sent  to  the  junction  of  the 
Great  Kanawha  with  the  Ohio, 
while  he  himself  marched  to  a 
higher  point  on  the  latter  river, 
with  pretended  purpose  of  de- 
stroying the  Indian  towns  and 
joining  Lewis  at  Point  Pleasant; 
but  it  was  believed  with  the  real 
object  of  sending  the  whole  In- 
dian force  to  annihilate  Lewis' 
detachment,  and  thereby  weaken 
the  power  and  break  down  the 
spirit  of  Virginia.  If  such  was 
his  object  he  was  signally  defeat- 
ed through  the  gallantry  of  the 
detachment,  which  met  and  de- 
feated the  superior  numbers  of 
the  enemy  at  Point  Pleasant,  af- 
ter an  exceeding  hard-fought 


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day,  and  the  loss  of  nearly  all  its 
officers.  The  day  after  the  vic- 
tory, an  express  arrived  from 
Unnmore  with  orders  for  the 
detachment  to  join  him  at  a  dis- 
tance of  80  miles,  through  an  en- 
emy's country,  without  any  con- 
ceivable object  but  the  destruc- 
tion of  the  corps.  As  these  or- 
ders were  given  without  a  know- 
lege  of  the  victory,  Col.  Lewis 
was  proceeding1  to  the  destruc- 
tion of  the  Shawanee  villiages, 
when  he  was  informed  the  gov- 
ernor had  made  peace. 

Another  evidence  of  Dun- 
more's  intention  to  have  the  ar- 
my of  Andrew  Lewis  destroyed 
at  Point  Pleasant,  is  found  in 
Kercheval's  History  of  the  Val- 
ley, p.  118,  as  follows:  "It  was 
the  generel  belief  among-  the  of- 
ficers of  our  army,  at  the  time, 
that  the  Earl  of  Dunmore,  while 
at  Wheeling,  receiyed  advice 
from  his  g-overnment  of  the  pro- 
bability of  the  approaching  war 
between  England  and  the  colo- 
nies, and  that  afterwards,  all  his 
measures,  with  regard  to  the 
Indians,  had  for  their  ultimate 
object  an  alliance  with  those  fe- 
rocious warriors  for  the  aid  of 
the  mother  country  in  their  con- 
test with  us.  This  supposition 
accounts  for  his  not  forming  a 
junction  with  the  army  of  Lewis 
at  Point  Pleasant.  This  devia- 
tion from  the  original  plan  of  the 
campaign  jeopardized  the  army 
of  Lewis  and  well  nigh  occasion- 


ed its  total  destruction.  The 
conduct  of  the  Earl  at  the  treaty, 
shows  a  good  understanding  be- 
tween him  and  the  Indian  chiefs. 
He  did  not  suffer  the  army  of 
Lewis  to  form  a  junction  with 
his  own,  but  sent  them  back  be- 
fore the  treaty  was  concluded, 
thus  risking  the  safety  of  his 
own  forces,  for  at  the  time  of  the 
treaty,  the  Indian  warriors  were 
about  his  camp  in  force  sufficient 
to  have  intercepted  his  retreat 
and  destroyed  his  whole  army." 

Again,  Kercheval  says:  "We 
now  proceed  to  examine  the 
question,  how  far  facts  and  cir- 
cumstances justify  us  in  suppos- 
ing the  Earl  of  Dunmore  himself 
was  instrumental  in  producing 
the  Indian  war  of  1774. 

It  has  already  been  remarked 
that  this  Indian  war  was  but  the 
precursor  to  our  revolutionary 
war  of  1775— that  Dunmore  the 
then  governor  of  Virginia,  was 
one  of  the  most  inveterate  and 
determined  enemies  to  the  revo- 
lution— that  he  was  a  man  of 
high  talents,  especially  for  intri- 
gue and  diplomatic  skill — that 
occupying  the  station  of  com- 
mander-in-chief  of  the  large  and 
respectable  State  of  Virginia,  he 
possessed  means  and  power  to 
do  much  to  serve  the  views  of 
Great  Britain.  And  we  have 
seen,  from  the  preceding  pages, 
how  effectually  he  played  his 
part  among  the  inhabitants  of 
the  western  country.  I  was 


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present  myself  when  a  Pennsyl- 
vania magistrate,  of  the  name  of 
Scott,  was  taken  into  custody, 
and  brought  before  Dunmore,  at 
Prestone  old  Fort;  he  was  severe- 
ly threatened  and  dismissed,  per- 
haps on  bail,  but  I  do  not  recol- 
lect how;  another  Pennsylvania 
magistrate  was  sent  to  Staunton 
jail.  And  I  have  already  shown 
in  the  perceding  pages,  that 
there  was  a  sufficient  prepara- 
tion of  materials  for  this  war  in 
the  predisposition  and  hostile 
attitude  of  our  affairs  with  the 
Indian*;  that  it  was  consequently 
no  difficult  matter  with  a  Vir- 
ginia governor  to  direct  the  inci- 
pient state  of  things  to  any  point 
most  conclusive  to  the  grand  end 
he  had  in  view,  namely,  in  weak- 
ening our  national  strength  in 
some  of  the  best  and  most  effi- 
cient parts.  If,  then,  a  war  with 
the  Indians  might  have  a  tenden- 
cy to  produce  this  result,  it  ap- 
pears perfectly  natural  and 
reasonable  to  suppose  that  Dun- 
more  would  make  use  of  the 
power  and  influence  to  promote 
it,  and  although  the  war  of  1774 
was  brought  to  a  conclusion  be- 
fore the  year  was  out,  yet  we 
know  that  this  fire  was  scarcely 
extinguished  before  it  burst  in- 
to a  flame  with  tenfold  fury,  and 
two  or  three  armies  of  the  whites 
were  sacrificed  before  we  could 
get  the  Indians  subdued;  and 
this  unhappy  state  of  our  affairs 
with  the  Indians  happening  dur- 


ing the  severe  conflict  of  our  rev- 
olutionary war,  had  the  very  ef- 
fect, I  suppose,  Dunmore  had  in 
view  namely,  dividing  our  forces 
and  enfeebling  our  aggregate 
strength;  and  that  the  seeds  of 
these  subsequent  wars  with  the 
Indians  were  sown  in  1774  and 
1775,  appears  almost  certain. 

"And  the  first  we  shall  men- 
tion is  a  circular  sent  by  Maj. 
Connoly,  his  proxy,  early  in  the 
spring  of  the  year  1774,  warning 
the  inhabitants  to  be  on  their 
guard — the  Indians  were  very 
angry,  and  manifested  so  much 
hostility,  that  he  was  apprehen- 
sive they  would  strike  some 
where  as  soon  as  the  season 
would  permit,  and  enjoining  the 
inhabitants  to  prepare  and  re- 
tire into  Forts,  &c.  It  might 
be  useful  to  collate  and  compare 
this  letter  with  one  he  wrote  to 
Capt,  Cresap  on  the  14th  of  July 
following;  see  hereafter.  In  this 
letter  he  declares  there  is  a  war 
or  danger  of  war,  before  the  war 
is  properly  begun;  in  that  to  Capt. 
Cresap,  he  says,  ''the  Indians 
deport  themselves  peaceably;" 
when  Dunmore  and  Lewis  and 
Cornstalk  we  are  all  out  on  their 
march  for  battle. 

"This  letter  produced  its  nat- 
ural result.  The  people  fled  in- 
to Forts,  and  put  themselves  in- 
to a  posture  of  defense,  and  the 
tocsin  of  war  resounded  from 
Laurel  Hill  to  the  banks  of  the 
Ohio  river.  Capt,  Cresap  who 


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was  peaceably  at  this  time  em- 
ployed in  building-  houses  and 
improving1  lands,  on  the  Ohio 
River,  received  this  letter,  ac- 
companied, it  is  believed,  with  a 
confirmatory  message  from  Col. 
Croghan  and  Maj.  McGee,  Indian 
ag-ents  and  interperters;  and  he 
thereupon  immediately  broke  up 
his  camp,  and  ascended  the  River 
to  Wheeling  fort,  the  nearest 
place  of  safety  from  whence  it  is 
believed  he  intended  speedily  to 
return  home;  but  during1  his  stay 
at  this  place,  a  report  was 
brought  to  the  Fort  that  two  In- 
dians were  coming  down  the 
River.  Capt.  Cresap,  supposing 
from  every  circumstances,  and 
the  general  aspect  of  affairs, 
that  war  was  inevitable,  and  in 
fact  already  begun,  went  up  the 
River  with  his  party;  and  two  of 
his  men,  of  the  name  of  Cheno- 
weth  and  Brothers,  killed,  these 
two  Indians.  Beyond  controver- 
sy this  is  the  only  circumstance 
in  the  history  of  this  Indian  war, 
in  whicn  his  name  can  in  the  re- 
motest degree  be  identified  with 
any  measure  tending  to  produce 
this  war;  and  it  is  certain  that 
the  guilt  or  innocence'of  this  af- 
fair will  appear  from  this  date. 
It  is  notorious,  then,  that  those 
Indians  were  killed  not  only  af- 
ter Capt.  Cresap  bad  received 
Connoly's  letter,  and  after 
Butler's  men  were  killed  in  the 
canoe,  but  also  alter  the  affair  at 
Yellow  Creek,  and  after  the  peo- 
ple had  fled  into  the  Forts." 


The  same  author  further  says, 
on  pages  128-130,  inclusive, 

"The  Governor  of  Virginia, 
whatever  might  have  been  his 
views  as  to  the  ulterior  measures, 
lost  no  time  in  preparing  to  meet 
this  storm.  He  sent  orders  im- 
mediately to  Col.  Andrew  Lewis, 
of  Augusta  county,  to  raise  an 
army  of  about  one  thousand  men, 
and  to  march  with  all  expedition 
to  the  mouth  of  the  Great  Kan- 
awha,  on  the  Ohio  River,  where, 
or  at  some  other  point,  he  would 
join  him,  after  he  had  got  to- 
gether another  army,  which  ne 
intended  to  raise  in  the  north- 
western counties,  and  command 
in  person.  Lewis  lost  no  time, 
collected  the  number  of  men  re- 
quired, and  marched  without  de- 
lay to  the  appointed  place  of  ren- 
dezvous. 

"But  the  Earl  was  not  quite 
so  rapid  in  his  movements, 
which  circumstance  the  eagle 
eye  of  old  Cornstalk,  the  gener- 
al of  the  Indian  army,  saw,  and 
was  determined  to  avail  himself 
of,  foreseeing  that  it  would  be 
much  easier  to  destroy  two  sepa- 
rate columns  of  an  invading  army 
before  than  after  their  junc- 
tion and  consolidation.  With 
this  view  he  marched  with  all  ex- 
pedition to  attack  Lewis  before 
he  was  joined  by  the  Earle's  ar- 
my from  the  north,  calculating, 
confidently  no  doubt,  that  if  he 
could  destroy  Lewis,  be  would 
be  able  to  give  a  good  account  of 
the  army  of  the  Earl. 


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"The  plan  of  Cornstalk  ap- 
pears to  have  been  those  of  a  con- 
summate and  skillful  general, 
and  the  prompt  and  rapid  execu- 
tion of  them  displayed  the  en- 
ergy of  a  warrior.  Ke,  there- 
fore, without  loss  of  time,  attack- 
ed Lewis  at  his  post.  The  at- 
tack was  sudden,  violent,  and  I 
believe  unexpected.  It  was 
nevertheless  well  fought,  very 
obstinate,  and  of  long-  continu- 
ance; and  as  both  parties  fought 
with  rifles,  the  conflict  was 
dreadful;  many  were  killed  on 
both  sides,  and  the  contest  was 
only  finished  with  the  approach 
of  night.  The  Virginians,  how- 
ever, kept  the  field,  .  but  lost 
many  able  officers  and  men,  and 
among  the  rest,  Col.  Charles, 
Lewis,  brother  to  the  command- 
er in-chief. 

This  battle  of  Lewis'  opened 
an  easy  and  unmolested  passage 
for  Dunmore  through  the  Indian 
country;  but  it  is  proper  to  re- 
mark here,  however,  that  when 
Dunmore  arrived  with  his  wing 
of  the  army  at  the  mouth  of  the 
Hockhocking  River,  he  sent  Capt. 
White-eyes,  a  Delaware  chief,  to 
invite  the  Indians  to  a  treaty, 
and  he  remained  stationary  at 
that  place  until  White-eyes  re- 
turned, who  reported  that  the 
Indians  would  not  treat  about 
peace.  I  presume,  in  order  of 
time,  this  must  have  been  just 
before  Lewis'  battle;  because  it 
will  appear  in  the  sequal  of  this 


story,  fhat  a  great  revolution 
took  place  in  the  minds  of  the 
Indians  after  the  battle. 

"Dunmore,  immediately  upon 
the  report  of  White-eyes  that  the 
Indians  were  not  disposed  for 
peace,  sent  an  express  to  Col. 
Lewis  to  move  on  and  meet  him 
near  Chillicothe,  on  the  Scioto 
river,  and  both  wings  of  the  ar- 
my were  put  in  motion.  But  as 
Dunmore  approached  the  Indian 
town,  he  was  met  by  flags  from 
the  Indians,  demanding  peace, 
to  which  he  acceded,  halted  his 
army,  and  runners  were  sent  to 
invite  the  Indian  chiefs,  who 
cheerfully  obeyed  the  summons, 
and  came  to  the  treaty — save 
only  Logan,  the  great  orator, 
who  refused  to  come.  It  seems, 
however,  that  neither  Dunmore 
nor  the  Indian  chiefs  considered 
his  presence  of  much  importance, 
for  they  went  to  work  and  finish- 
ed the  treaty  without  him — re- 
ferring, I  believe,  some  unsettled 
points  for  future  discussion,  at 
a  treaty  to  be  held  the  ensuing 
summer  or  fall  at  Pittsburg. 
This  treaty,  the  articles  of  which 
I  never  saw,  nor  do  I  know  that, 
they  were  ever  recorded,  con- 
cluded Dunmore's  war,  in  Sep- 
tember or  October,  1774.  After 
the  treaty  was  over,  old  Corn- 
stalk, the  Shawnee  chief,  accom- 
panied Dunmore's  army  until 
they  reached  the  mouth  of  the 
Hockhocking.  on  the  Ohio  River; 
and  what  was  more  singular, 


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rather  made  his  hom'e  in  Capt. 
Ci*esap's  tent,  with  whom  he 
continued  on  terms  of  the  most 
friendly  familiarity.  I  consider 
this  circumstance  as  positive 
proof  that  the  Indians  them- 
selves neither  considered  Capt. 
Cresap  the  murderer  of  Log-an's 
family,  nor  the  cause  of  the  war. 
It  appears,  also,  that  at  this  place 
the  Earl  of  Dunmore  received 
dispatches  from  England.  Dod- 
ridge  sa}7s  he  received  these  on 
his  march  out. 

But  we  ought  to  have  mention- 
ed in  its  proper  place,  that  after 
the  treaty  between  Duntnore  and 
the  Indians  commenced  near 
Chillocothe,  Lewis  arrived  with 
his  army,  and  encamped  two  or 
three  miles  from  Dunmore, 
which  greatly  alarmed  the  In- 
dians, as  they  thought  he  was  so 
much  irritated  at  losing  so  many 
men  in  the  late  battle  that  he 
would  not  easily  be  pacified;  nor 
would  they  be  satisfied  until 
Dunmore  and  old  Cornstalk  went 
into  Lewis'  camp  to  converse 
with  him. 

Dr.  Doddridge  represents  this 
affair  in  different  shades  of  light 
from  this  statement.  I  can  only 
say  I  had  my  information  from 
an  officer  who  was  present  at  the 
time. 

But  it  is  time  to  remind  the 
reader,  that,  although  I  have 
wandered  into  such  a  minute  de- 
tail of  the  various  occurrences, 
facts  and  circumstances  of  Dun- 


more's  war;  and  all  of  which  as  a 
history  may  be  interesting  to  the 
present  and  especially  to  the  ris- 
ing generation;  yet  it  is  proper 
to  remark  that  I  have  two  lead- 
ing objects  chiefly  in  view — first, 
to  convince  the  world,  that  who- 
ever might  be  the  cause  of  the 
Indian  war  in  1774,  it  was  nut 
Ca'pt.  Cresap;  secondly,  that  from 
the  aspect  of  our  political  affairs, 
at  that  period,  and  from  the 
known  hostility  of  Dunmore  to 
the  American  Revolution,  and 
withal  to  the  subsequent  con- 
duct of  Dunmore,  and  the  dread- 
ful Indian  war  that  commenced 
soon  after  the  beginning  of  our 
war  with  Great  Britain — I  say, 
from  all  these  circumstances,  we 
have  infinitely  stronger  reasons 
to  suspect  Dunmore  than  Cresap; 
and  I  may  say  that  the  dispatches 
above  mentioned  that  were  re- 
ceived by  Dunmore  at  Hockbock- 
ing,  although  after  the  treaty, 
were  yet  calculated  to  create  sus- 
picion. 

But  if,  as  we  suppose,  Dun- 
more  was  secretly  at  the  bottom 
of  this  Indian  war,  it  is  evident 
that  be  could  not  with  propriety 
appear  personally  in  a  business 
of  this  kind;  and  we  have  seen 
and  shall  see,  how  effectually  bis 
sub-governor  played  his  part  be- 
tween the  Virginians  and  Penn- 
sylvanians;  and  it  now  remains 
for  us  to  examine  how  far  the 
conduct  of  this  man  (Connolly) 
will  bear  us  out  in  the  supposi- 


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tion  that  there  was  also  some 
foul  play,  some  dark  intriguing 
work  to  embroil  the  western 
country  in  an  Indian  war." 

Hon.  V.  A.  Lewis  who  is  the 
author  of  the  History  of  the 
Virginias  compiled  in  Hardesty's 
Historical  and  Geographical  En 
cylopedian  ot  1883  pays  the  fol- 
lowing- tribute  to  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant: 

"To  the  student  of  history  no 
truth  is  more  patent  than  this, 
that  the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant, 
was  the  first  in  the  series  of  the 
Revolution,  the  flames  of  which 
were  being  kindled  by  the  op- 
pression of  the  mother  country 
and  the  resistance  of  the  same 
by  the  feeble  but  determined 
colonies.  It  is  a  well  known  fact 
that  the  emisaries  of  Great  Bri- 
tain were  then  inciting  the  In- 
dians to  hostilities  against  the 
frontier  for  the  purpose  of  dis- 
tracting attention,  and  thus  pre- 
venting the  consumation  of  the 
Union  which  was  then  being 
formed  to  resist  the  tyranny  of 
their  armed  oppression.  It  is 
also  well  known  that  Lord  Dun- 
more  was  an  enemy  of  the  colo- 
nists, by  his  rigid  adherence  to 
the  royal  cause  and  his  efforts 
to  induce  the  Indians  to  co-oper- 
ate with  the  English,  and  thus 
assist  in  reducing  Virginia  to 
subjection.  It  has  been  assert- 
ed that  he  intentionally  delayed 
the  progress  of  the  left  wing  of 
the  army  that  the  right  might  be 


destroyed  at  Point  Pleasant. 
Then  at  the  mouth  of  the  Great 
Kanawha  river  on  the  19th  (10th) 
day  of  October,  1774,  there  went 
whiz/ing  through  the  forrest  the 
first  volley  of  a  struggle  for  lib- 
erty, which,  in  the  granduer  and 
importance  of  its  results,  stands 
without  parallel  in  the  history 
of  the  world.  On  that  day  the 
soil  upon  which  Point  Pleasant, 
now  stands  drank  the  first  blood 
shed  in  defense  of  American  lib- 
erty, and  it  was  there  decided 
that  the  decaying  institutions  of 
the  Middle  Ages  should  not  pre- 
vail in  America,  but  that  just 
laws  and  priceless  liberty  should 
be  planted  forever  in  the  domains 
of  the  New  World. 

Historians,  becoming  engross- 
ed with  the  more  stirring  scenes 
of  the  Revolution,  have  failed  to 
consider  the  sanguinay  battle  in 
its  true  import  and  bearing  upon 
the  destiny  of  our  country,  for- 
getting, that  the  Colonial  army 
returned  home  only  to  enlist  in 
the  patriot  army  and  on  almost 
every  battlefield  of  the  Revolu- 
tion were  representatives  of  that 
little  band  who  stood  face  to  face 
with  the  savage  allies  of  Great 
Britian  at  Point  Pleasant." 

And,  in  conclusion,  Kercheval 
says,  at  page  139,  "I  say,  from 
all  which  it  will  appear  that  Dun- 
more  had  his  views,  and  those 
views  hostile  to  the  liberties  of 
America,  in  his  proceedings  with 
the  Indians  in  the  war  of  1774, 


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the  circumstances  of  the  times, 
in  connection  with  his  equivocal 
conduct,  leads  us  almost  natur- 
al!}' to  infer  that  he  knew  pretty 
well  what  he  was  about,  and 
among-  other  thing's,  he  knew 
that  a  war  with  the  Indians  at 
this  time  would  materially  sub- 
serve the  views  and  interest  of 
Great  Britain,  and  consequently 
he  perhaps  might  teel  it  a  duty 
to  promote  said  war,  and  if  not, 
why  betray  such  extreme  solici- 
tude to  single  out  some  conspicu- 
ous character,  and  make  him 
the  scape-goat,  to  bear  all  the 
blame  of  this  war,  that  he  and 
his  friend  Connolly  might  es- 
cape?" 

Nothing-  could  more  fittingly 
JS^describe  the  patriotic  senti- 
ment fell  in  Virginia  than  the 
heroic  appeal  of  Mrs.  Wm. 
Lewis.  It  is  related  of  her 
that  "When  the  British  force 
under  Tarleton  drove  the  legis- 
lature from  Charlottesville  to 
Staunton,  the  stillness  of  the 
Sabbath  eve  was  broken  in  the 
latter  town  by  the  beat  of  the 
drum,  and  volunteers  were  call- 
ed for  to  prevent  the  passage  of 
the  British  through  the  moun- 
tains at  Kockfish  Gap.  The 
elder  sons  of  Wm.  Lewis,  who 
then  resided  at  the  old  fort,  were 
absent  with  the  northern  army. 
Three  sons,  however,  were  at 
home,  whose  ag-es  were  17,  15 
and  13  years.  Wm.  Lewis  was 
confined  to  his  room  by  sickness, 
but  his  wife,  with  the  firmness 


of  a  Roman  matron,  called  them 
to  her,  and  bade  them  fly  to  the 
defence  of  their  native  land. 
"Go  my  children.'  said  she,  "I 
spare  not  my  youngest,  my  fair- 
haired  boy,  the  comfort  ol  my 
declining-  years.  I  devote  you. 
all  to  my  country.  Keep  back 
the  foot  of  the  invader  from  the 
soil  of  Augusta,  or  see  my  face 
no  more."  When  this  incident 
was  related  to  Washington, 
shortly  after  its  occurrence,  he 
enthusiastically  exclaimed, 
"Leave  me  but  a  banner  to  plant 
upon  the  mountains  of  Augusta, 
and  I  will  rally  around  me  the 
men  who  will  lift  our  bleeding- 
country  from  the  dust,  and  set 
her  free."  Howe's  Virginia, 
its  History  and  Antiquities,  p. 
183. 

From  Wither's  Border  War- 
fare we  quote:  "The  army  un- 
der Gen.  Lewis  had  endured 
many  privations  and  suffered 
many  hardships.  They  had  en- 
countered a  savage  enemy  in 
great  force,  and  purchased  a 
victory  with  the  blood  of  their 
friends.  When  arrived  near  to 
the  goal  of  their  anxious  wishes, 
and  with  nothing  to  prevent  the 
accomplishment  of  the  object  of 
the  campaign,  they  received 
those  orders  with  evident  chag- 
rin, and  did  not  obey  them  with- 
out murmuring.  Having,  at  his 
own  request,  been  introduced 
severally  to  the  officers  of  that 
division,  complimenting  them  for 


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their  gallantry  and  good  conduct 
in  the  late  engagement,  and  as- 
suring them  of  his  high  esteem, 
Lord  Dunmore  returned  to  bis 
Camp;  and  Gen.  Lewis  commen- 
ced his  retreat.  " 

"This  battle  (says  Col.  Stuart, 
in  his  historical  memoir)  was,  in 
fact,  the  beginning  of  the  revo- 
lutionary war,  that  obtained  for 
our  country  the  liberty  and  in- 
dependence enjoyed  by  the 
United  States —  and  a  good  pres- 
age of  future  success;  for  it  is 
well  known  that  the  Indians  were 
influenced  by  the  British  to  com- 
mence the  war  to  terrify  and  con- 
found the  people,  before  thev 
commenced  hostilities  them- 
selves the  following  year  at  Lex- 
ington. It  was  thought  by  Brit- 
ish politicians,  that  to  excite  an 
"Indian  war  would  prevent  a 
combination  of  the  colonies  for 
opposing  parliamentary  meas- 
ures to  tax  the  Americans. 
The  blood,  therefore,  spilt  upon 
this  memorable  battlefield,  will 
long  he  remembered  by  the  good 
people  of  Virginia  and  the  United 
States  with  gratitude." 

Virgil  A.  Lewis,  West  Virgin- 
ia State  Historian  and  Archivest, 
says,  in  his  History  of  West 
Virginia,  published  in  1889,  at 
page  133,  "To  the  student  of 
history  no  truth  is  more  patent 
than  this,  that  the  battle  of 
Point  Pleasant  was  the  first  in 
the  series  of  the  Revolution,  the 
flames  of  which  were  then  being 


kindled  by  the  oppression  of  the 
mother  country,  and  the  resist- 
ance of  the  same  by  the  feeble 
but  determined  colonies.  It  is  a 
well  known  fact  that  emissaries 
of  Great  Britain  were  then  incit- 
ing the  Indians  to  hostilities 
against  the  frontier  for  the  pur- 
pose of  distracting  attention  and 
thus  preventing  the  consuma- 
tion  of  the  union  which  was  then 
being  formed  to  resist  the  tyran- 
ny of  their  armed  oppressors. 
It  is  also  well  known  that  Lord 
Dunmore  was  an  enemy  to  the 
colonists,  by  his  rigid  adherence 
to  the  royal  cause  and  his  efforts 
to  induce  the  Indians  to  co-oper- 
ate with  the  English,  and  thus 
assist  in  reducing  Virginia  to 
subjection.  It  has  been  assert- 
ed that  he  intentionally  delayed 
the  progress  of  the  left  wing  of 
the  army  that  the  right  might 
be  destroyed  at  Point  Pleasant. 
Then,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Great 
Kanawha  river,  on  the  10th  day 
of  October,  1774,  there  went 
whizzing  through  the  forest  the 
first  volley  of  a  struggle  for  lib- 
erty which,  in  the  grandeur  and 
importance  of  its  results,  stands 
without  a  parellel  in  the  history 
of  the  world.  On  that  day  the 
soil  on  which  Point  Pleasant  now 
stands  drank  the  first  blood,  shed 
in  defence  of  American  liberty, 
and  it  was  there  decided  that  the 
decaying  institutions  of  the  Mid- 
dle Ages  should  not  prevail  in 
America,  but  that  just  laws  and 


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priceless  liberty  should  be  plant- 
ed forever  in  the  domains  of  the 
New  World.  Historians,  becom- 
ing- engrossed  with  the  more 
stirring  scenes  of  the  Revolution, 
ha.ve  failed  to  consider  this  san- 
guinar\-  battle  in  its  true  import 
and  bearing  upon  the  destiny  of 
our  country,  forg-etting  that  the 
colonial  army  returned  home  on- 
ly to  enlist  in  the  patriot  army, 
and  on  almost  every  battle-field 
of  the  Revolution  represented 
that  little  band  vvhu  stood  tace  to 
face  with  the  savag-e  allies  of 
Great  Britain  at  Point  Pleasant.' 
Owing  to  the  importance  of 
the  question,  we  have,  at  the 
risk  of  tiring-  the  reader,  given 
these  many  details  of  evidence 
that  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant, 
while  not  a  battle  between  the 
English  and  Colonial  forces, 
nevertheless  shed  the  first  blood 
on  American  soil  for  national  in- 
dependence. It  can  be  plain- 
ly seen  that,  though  at  this  time 
these  sturdy  pioneers  were  fight- 
ing to  protect  their  homes  and 
firesides,  the  very  foundation 
of  national  government,  Great 
Britain,  through  her  Tory  Gov- 
ernor of  Virginia,  intended  thus 
to  destroy  the  flower  of  the  Col- 
onial army  of  Virginia.  It  was 
a  stroke  which,  had  it  succeeded, 
would  have  averted  the  War  of 
the  Revolution  many  years. 
The  army  that  Lewis  gathered 
were  not  the  unlettered  men  of 
the  forest, — they  were  from 


among  the  most  highly  educated 
men  of  the  colony  and  it  is  said 
that,  to  this  date,  in  no  army  of 
a  similar  number,  has  such  a 
large  percentage  had  a  knovvl 
edge  of  the  Greek  and  Latin  lan- 
guag-es  That  they  were  men 
of  education  and  influence  will 
be  seen  by  following  the  survi- 
vors of  that  battle,  not  only 
through  the  Revolution,  where 
many  of  them  distinguished 
themselves,  but  out  into  the  civ- 
il life  of  the  country,  during,  and 
subsequent  to,  the  Revolution. 

That  the  battle  was  the  most 
fruitful,  in  its  results,  of  any 
battle  ever  fought  upon  Ameri- 
can soil,  is  apparent  from  the 
history  of  the  country.  The 
great  Northwest  Territory,  ly- 
ing north  of  the  Ohio  and  east 
of  the  Mississippi,  had  long-  been 
a  bone  of  contention  between 
France  and  England  and  France 
did  not  relinquish  her  claim  un- 
til driven  to  recede  as  the  result 
of  the  battle  upon  the  Plains  of 
Abraham  before  Quebec,  where 
the  intrepid  Montcalm  was  de- 
feated by  the  invincible  Wolffe. 

The  treaty  that  followed  at 
Paris,  in  1763,  ceded  all  this  terri- 
tory to  England,  whose  failure 
to  open  it  to  the  colonists  was 
a  subject  of  discussion  and  dis- 
trust and  rightfully  so,  as  En- 
gland maintained  it  to  the  ex 
elusion  of  the  colonists,  not  only 
that  she  might,  with  it,  subsidize 
the  savage  Indians,  but  when 


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necessary,  secure  their  services 
in  maintaining  cOntrol  of  the  col- 
onies. 

By  the  treaty  that  followed  the 
battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  that  of 
Camp  Charlotte,  the  federation  of 
the  five  great  nations  in  control 
of  that  territory  ceded  it  to  Vir- 
ginia, to  hold  inviolate,  and  which 
treaty  lasted  without  interrup- 
tion for  three  years,  enabling 
the  colonists  not  only  to 
enter  the  Northwest  Territor, 
but  to  colonize  Kentucky  and 
Tennessee.  In  Dunmore's  ar- 
my was  the  intrepid  George  Rod- 
gers  Clarke,  a  Virginian,  the 
Hanibal  of  the  West,  who  was 
present  at  the  treaty  of  Camp 
Charlotte.  The  history  of  the 
colonization  and  civilization  of 
this  territory  is  the  history  of 
Geo.  Kcdgers  Clarke,  too  well 
known  here  for  extended  com- 
ment. Suffice  it  to  say  that,  in 
the  struggle  led  by  Clarke  to 
drive  the  British  from  the  North- 
west Territory,  it  was  not  the 
colonies,  but  Virginia,  protect- 
ing her  own  territory,  acquired 
by  the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant, 
that  furnished  the  army  for 
Clark's  expedition,  Governor, 
Patrick  Henry  supplying  Clarke 
from  Virginia's  funds,  the  sum  of 
twelve  hundred  pounds,  and 
supplies  of  boots  and  ammun- 
tion  from  Pittsburg,  then  in 
Virginia.  Could  any  army  have 
displayed  more  heroism,  an 
army  of  one  hundred  and 
fifty,  starting  out  to  conquer 


such  a  wilderness,  with  no  con- 
veyance for  their  munitions  of 
war,  save  their  own  robust  and 
hardy  bodies? 

The"  subjugation  of  this  coun- 
try was  not  only  comparatively 
broad  in  its  results,  but  was  due 
alone  to  Virginia.  Of  course, 
such  a  vast  territory  opened  up, 
as  it  thus  was,  to  civilization  and 
habitation,  necessarily  called  for 
representation  in  the  Congress  of 
the  infant  nation,  and  justly  so. 
Virginia  would  soon,  by  her 
great  population,  control  the  leg- 
islation of  the  nation.  Such,  how- 
ever, was  not  the  purpose  of  Vir- 
ginia. That  ever  generous 
mother  state  here  had  opportun- 
ity to  be  the  most  mag- 
nanimous of  them  all.  She 
would  not,  if  she  could,  dominate 
the  policy  of  the  country,  and, 
without  a  dollar,  she  donated,  ac- 
tually gave  away  to  the  colonies 
in  fee  simple  the  entire  North- 
west Territory,  to  be  the  terri- 
tory of  the  colonists,  and  to  be 
disposed  of  as  they  deemed  best 

When  we  review  the  acquisi- 
tion of  the  other  territory  of  the 
United  States  and  compare  the 
$16,000,000,  expended  by  our 
government,  for  the  Louisiana 
purchase,  the  cost  of  the  acqui- 
sition of  upper  and  lower  Cali- 
fornia, of  Alaska,  of  the  Phillip- 
pines,  of  the  cost  of  the  Mexican 
acquisition  in  men  and  money, 
and  then  remember  that  the 
settlement  of  the  states  of  Ken- 


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tucky  and  Tennessee  were  made 
possible,  as  well  as  the  coloniza- 
tion of  Western  Pennsylvania  and 
Western  Virginia,  together  with 
the  acquisition  of  the  Northwest 
Territory,  and  the  settlement 
and  civilization  of  the  same,  and 
all  as  a  sequel  of  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant,  considering-  the 
history  of  the  ever  memorable 
struggle  and  the  subsequent  de- 
velopment of  the  country,  it  is 
very  apparent  not  only  that  the 
Battle  of  Point  Pleasant  was  the 
initial,  the  first  battle  of  the 
Revolution,  but  also  farther 
reaching  in  its  results  than 
any  other  battle  ever  fought  upon 
the  American  continent. 

As  we  have  said  before,  no  offi- 
cial report  of  the  battle  was  ever 
made,  but  a  letter  from  Williams- 
burg,  Va.,  then  the  seat  of  gov- 
ernment, under  date  of  No- 
vember 10,  1774,  was  publish- 
ed in  the  Belfast  News  Let- 
ter, yet  preserved.  Presum- 
ably, it  was  contributed  to  that 
paper  because  many  of  the 
Scotch-Irish  had  emigrated  from 
Belfast,  Ulster  District,  to  Penn- 
sylvania and  ultimately  to  Vir- 
g-inia and  settled  in  the  sections 
of  Virginia  from  which  the  army 
had  been  for  the  most  part  been 
made  up.  This  made  the  event 
peculiarly  interesting-  to  the  peo- 
ple of  that  portion  of  Ireland. 
From  that  publication  we  quote 
the  history  of  the  battle: 
"BELFAST. 

Yesterday  arrived  a  mail  from 


New  York,  brought  to  Falmouth 
by  the  Harriot  packet  boat. 
Capt.  Lee. 

Williamsburg-,  Va., 

November  10th. 

The  following  letter  is  just  re- 
ceived here  from  the  camp  at 
Point  Pleasant,  at  the  mouth  of 
the  Great  Kenhawa  '(as  then 
spelled),  dated  October  17,  1774: 

"The  following  is  a  true  state- 
ment of  a  battle  fought  at  this 
place  on  the  10th  instant:  On 
Monday  morning,  about  half  an 
hour  before  sunrise,  two  of  Capt. 
Russell's  company  discovered  a 
large  party  of  Indians  about  a 
mile  from  the  camp,  one  of  which 
men  was  shot  down  by  the  In- 
dians; the  other  made  his  escape, 
and  brought  in  the  intelligence. 
In  two  or  three  minutes  after, 
two  of  Capt.  Shelby's  company 
came  in  and  confirmed  the  ac- 
count. 

"Col.  Andrew  Lewis,  being 
informed  thereof  immediately 
ordered  out  Col.  Charles  Lewis, 
to  take  command  of  one  hundred 
and  fifty  of  the  Aug-usta  troops, 
and  with  him  went  Capt.  Dickin- 
son, Capt.  Harrison,  Capt.  Wil- 
son, Capt.  John  Lewis  of  Agusta, 
and  Capt.  Lockridge,  which 
made  the  first  division.  Col. 
Fleming  was  also  ordered  -to 
take  command  of  one  hundred 
and  fifty  more  of  the  Botetourt, 
Bedford  and  Fincastle  troops.: 
Capt.  Thomas  Buford,  from  Bed- 
ford; Capt  Love,  of  Botetourt; 


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Capt.  Shelby  and  Capt.  Russell, 
of  Fincastle,  which  made  the 
second  division. 

"Col.  Charles  Lewis'  division 
marched  to  the  right,  some  dis- 
tance from  the  Ohio,  and  Col. 
Fleming,  with  his  division  on  the 
bank  of  the  Ohio,  to  the  left. 

"Col.  Charles  Lewis'  division 
had  not  marched  quite  half  a 
mile  from  the  camp  when,  about 
sunrise,  an  attack  was  made  on 
the  front  of  his  division,  in  a 
most  vigorous  manner,  by  the 
united  tribes  of  Indians — Shaw- 
nees,  Delawares,  Mingoes,  Ta- 
was,  and  of  several  other  nations 
—in  number  not  less  than  eight 
hundred,  and  by  many  thought 
to  be  one  thousand. 

"In  this  heavy  attack,  Col. 
Charles  Lewis  received  a  wound 
which,  in  a  few  hours  caused  his 
death,  and  several  of  his  men  fell 
on  the  spot;  in  fact,  Augusta  di- 
vision was  obliged  to  give  wav 
to  the  heavy  fire  of  the  enemy. 
In  about  a  second  of  a  minute 
after  the  attack  on  Col.  Lewis' 
division,  the  enemy  engaged  the 
front  of  Col.  Fleming's  division, 
on  the  Ohio,  and  in  a  short  time 
the  Colonel  received  two  balls 
through  his  left  arm,  and  one 
through  his  breast,  and,  after 
animating  the  officers  and  sol- 
diers in  a  most  calm  manner  to 
the  pursuit  of  victory,  retired  to 
the  camp. 

"The  loss  in  the  field  was  sen- 
sibly felt  by  the  officers  in  parti- 


cular; but  the  Augusta  troops, 
being  shortly  after  reinforced 
from  the  camp  by  Col.  Field, 
with  his  company,  together  with 
Capt.  McDowell,  Capt.  Mathews 
and  Capt.  Stewart,  from  Augus- 
ta; Capt.  Paulin,  Capt.  Arbuckle 
and  Capt.  McClannahan,  from 
Botetourt,  the  enemy  no  longer 
able  to  maintain  their  ground, 
was  forced  to  give  way  till  they 
were  in  a  line  witn  the  troops, 
Col.  Fleming  being  left  in  action 
on  the  bank  of  the  Ohio. 

"In  this  precipitate  retreat 
Col.  Field  was  killed.  During 
this  time,  which  was  till  after 
twelve,  the  action  in  a  small  de- 
gree abated,  but  continued,  ex- 
cept at  short  intervals,  sharp 
enough  till  after  1  o'clock. 
Their  long  retreat  gave  them  a 
most  advantageous  spot  of 
ground,  from  whence  it  appear- 
ed to  the  officers  so  difficult  to 
dislodge  them  that  it  was  thought 
most  advisable  to  stand  as  the 
line  was  then  formed,  which  was 
about  a  mile  and  a  quarter  in 
length,  and  had  sustained  till 
then  a  constant  and  equal  weight 
of  the  action,  from  wing  to  wing. 

"It  was  till  about  half  an  hour 
till  sunset  they  continued  firing 
on  us  scattering  shots,  which  we 
returned  to  their  disadvantage. 
At  length,  the  night  coming  on, 
they  found  a  safe  retreat. 

'  'They  had  not  the  satisfaction 
of  carrying  off  any  of  our  men's 
scalps,  save  one  or  two  strag- 


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glers  whom  they  killed  before 
the  engagement.  Many  of  their 
dead  they  scalped,  rather  than 
we  should  have  them,  but  our 
troops  scalped  upwards  of  twen- 
ty of  their  men  that  were  first 
killed. 

"It  is  beyond  doubt  their  loss; 
in  number,  far  exceeded  ours, 
which  is  considerable. 

"The  return  of  the  killed  'and 
wounded  in  the  above  battle, 
same  as  our  last,  as  follows: 

—Killed— Colonels  Charles 
Lewis  and  John  Field,  Captains 
John  Murray,  R.  McClannahan, 
Samuel  Wilson,  James  Ward, 
Lieut.  Hugh  Allen,  ensigns  Can- 
tiff  and  Bracken,  and  forty-four 
privates.  Total  killed,  fifty -three. 

"Wounded— Col.  William  Flem- 
ing, Captains  John  Dickinson, 
Thomas  Buford  and  I.  Skidman 
Lieutenants  Goldman,  Robinson, 
Lard  and  Vance,  and  seventy- 
nine  privates.  Total  wounded, 
eighty-seven;  killed  and  wounded 
one  hundred  and  forty." 

And  further  from  the  same 
publication : 

"AMERICA. 

Williamsburg,  in  Virginia, 
December  1,  1774. 

We  have  it  from  good  authori- 
ty that  his  excellency,  the  gover- 
nor, is  on  his  way  to  this  capital, 
having  concluded  a  peace  with 
the  several  tribes  of  Indians  that 
have  been  at  war  with  us,  and 
taken  hostages  of  them  for  their 
faithful  complying  with  terms  of 


it,  the  principal  of  which  are 
that  they  shall  totally  abandon 
the  lands  on  this  side  of  the  Ohio 
river,  which,  river  is  to  be  the 
boundary  between  them  and  the 
white  people,  and  never  more 
take  up  the  hatchet  against  the 
English." 

"Thus,  in  a  little  more  than 
the  space  of  five  months,  an  end 
is  put  to  a  war  which  portended 
much  trouble  and  mischief  to  the 
inhabitants  on  the  frontier,  ow- 
ing to  the  zeal  and  good  conduct 
of  the  officers  and  commanders 
who  went  out  in  their  country's 
defense  and  the  bravery  and 
perseverance  of  all  the  troops.' 
Copied  from  the  Belfast  News 
Letter  of  February  10.  1775." 

De  Hass,  in  describing  the 
battle,  says: 

"The  battle  scene  was  now 
terribly  grand.  There  stood 
the  combatants — terror,  rage, 
disappointment  and  despair  riv 
eted  upon  the  painted  faces  of 
one,  while  calm  resolution  and 
the  unbending  will  to  do  or  die 
were  marked  upon  the  other. 
Neither  party  would  retreat, 
neither  could  advance.  The 
noise  of  the  firing  was  tremend- 
ous:— no  single  gun  could  be  dis- 
tinguished— was  one  common 
roar.  The  rifle  and  the  toma- 
hawk now  did  their  work  with 
dreadful  certainty.  The  confu- 
sion and  perturbation  of  the 
camp  had  now  arrived  at  its 
greatest  height.  The  confused 


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sounds  and  wild  uproar  of  the 
battle  added  gfreatly  to  the  ter- 
ror of  the  scene.  The  shouting 
of  the  whites,  the  continued  roar 
of  firearms,  the  war-whoops  and 
dismal  yelling  of  the  Indians, 
were  discordant  and  terrific." 

Col.  J.  L.  Peyton,  in  his  valu- 
able history  of  Augusta  county, 
says: 

"It  was,  throughout,  a  terrible 
scene — the  ring  of  rifles  and  the 
roar  of  muskets,  the  clubbed 
guns,  the  flashing  knives — the 
fight,  hand  to  hand — the  scream 
for  mercy,  smothered  i  n  the 
death-groan — the  crushing 
through  the  brush — the  advance 
— the  retreat — the  pursuit,  every 
man  for  himself,  with  his  enemy 
in  view — the  scattering  on  every 
side — the  sounds  of  battle,  dying 
away  into  a  pistol  shot  here  and 
there  through  the  wood,  and  a 
shriek'  the  collecting  again  of 
the  whites,  covered  with  gore 
and  sweat,  bearing  trophies  of 
the  slain,  their  dripping  knives 
in  one  hand,  and  rifle-barrel, 
bent  and  smeared  with  brains 
and  hair,  in  the  other.  No  lan- 
guage can  adequately  describe 
it." 

Mr.  Stephen  T.  Mitchell  in 
1827  in  a  publication,  "The 
Spirit  of  the  Old  Dominion"  pub- 
lished at  Richmond  Virginia 
gives  the  following  account  of 
the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant. 

"We  landed  about  a  mile  on  the 
left-hand  shore  of  Kanawha,  and 


climbing  a  large  hill,  we  were 
saluted  by  a  hundred  Indians, 
encamped  upon  the  top.  Our 
captors  told  their  adventures,  no 
doubt,  with  every  aggravation; 
for,  after  the  most  frantic  ex- 
pressions of  grief  and  rage,  I 
was  bound  to  a  tree,  a  large  pine 
tree,  which  stands  to  this  day 
upon  the  brow  of  the  hill,  and 
the  fire  was  kindled  around  me. 
I  said  my  prayers;  my  time  was 
come;  my  body  felt  the  scorching 
heat:  but,  by  a  miraculous  inter- 
position of  Providence,  the  clouds 
which  had  been  lowering  all  day, 
now  burst  out  in  showers,  and 
quenched  the  flames.  The  In- 
dians thought  the  Great  Spirit 
looked  over  me,  and  directed  the 
shower  for  my  safety.  My 
bonds  were  loosened,  and  1  was 
allowed  a  little  jirk  and  hommony 
for  my  refreshment.  The  next 
day  T  could  perceive  some  great 
expedition  on  foot;  the  Indians 
were  running  to  and  fro  in  every 
direction;  some  grinding  paint 
and  some  cleaning  up  their  arms; 
and  even  the  squaws  and  little 
boys  were  providing  themselves 
with  hatchets  and  scalping- 
knives,  and  strewing  themselves 
from  the  Ohio  river  all  along  the 
cliffs  of  Kanawha." 

"Late  in  the  evening,  I  saw  an 
uncommon  anxiety  on  the  faces 
of  the  savages;  councils,  grand 
and  petty,  were  held  in  various 
places,  and  so  completely  were 
my  guards  absorbed  in  the  un- 


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dertaking  which  was  at  hand, 
that  they  became  entirely  remiss 
in  their  attentions  to  me.  I  re- 
solved to  sieize  the  propitious 
moment,  and  make  my  escape. 
I  sprang  on  my  feet  and  ran  as 
fast  as  my  legs  would  carry  me. 
A  loud  whoop  proclaimed  the 
event,  and  in  a  moment,  I  could 
perceive  myself  closely  pursued 
by  half  a  dozen  athletic  young 
fellows,  with  uplifted  tomahawks. 
Fear  added  to  my  limbs  the 
agility  of  the  deer.  With  my 
head  turned  back  over  one 
shoulder,  I  bounded  through  the 
pine-trees  until  my  speed  had 
carried  me  unawares  to  the  brink 
of  a  precipice.  I  tried  to  stop; 
it  was  too  late;  I  gave  a  piercing 
shriek  and  bounded  over.  A 
rushing  sound  in  my  ears  like 
the  roaring  of  a  mill-dam,  then 
the  crashing  of  branches  and 
limbs  recalled  me  to  my  recollec- 
tion, and  I  found  myself  to  my 
inexpressible  delight,  breaking 
my  way  through  the  thick 
branches  of  a  buck-eye  tree.  I 
alighted  without  injury,  and  look- 
ing back  upon  the  cliff  above, 
could  see  my  savage  pursuers 
gaping  over  the  precipice  in 
amazement.  I  gave  not  a  second 
look,  but  darted  off  towards  the 
point  with  a  heart  swelling  with 
praise  to  the  great  Creator,  who 
had  thus  twice  rescued  me  so 
miraculously  from  my  enemies. 
Arriving  at  the  mouth  of  the 
Kanawha,  I  shouted  aloud  for 


assistance.  But,  the  whites  had 
too  often  been  decoyed  by  their 
own  people  to  the  savages,  to  be 
easily  imposed  upon.  They  an- 
swered me  they  could  give  no  as- 
sistance. I  could  not  swim, 
but  my  ingenuity,  never  fer- 
tile in  expedients,  befriended  me 
now  tor  the  first  time  in  my  life. 
I  rolled  down  a  dry  log  from  the 
bank  into  the  water,  and  getting 
astride  of  it,  I  managed  by  great 
exertion  of  hands  and  feet,  to 
row  it  across  the  stream,  which 
at  that  time,  from  the  great 
height  of  the  Ohio,  was  as  still 
as  a  mill-pond  I  was  received 
by  General  Lewis,  the  command- 
ant of  the  fort,  with  great  cor- 
diality and  affection;  and,  being 
naked  and  necessitous,  I  enrolled 
myself  as  a  regular  in  the  corps; 
and,  being  dressed  in  militaire, 
with  a  tremendous  rifle  in  my 
hand  and  a  thick  breast  work 
before  me,  I  felt  as  brave  as 
Julius  Ceasar." 

The    Battle  of     Point    Pleasant 

"I  was  in  hopes  that  I  might  en- 
joy, within  the  walls  of  a  fort, 
some  respite  from  the  fears, 
toils  and  anexieties  which  had, 
for  the  last  two  weeks,  worn  me 
out  both  body  and  mind.  But  he 
who  undertakes  to  settle  in  a 
new  and  savage  country,  must 
look  out  for  no  such  respite,  un- 
til, by  hardihood  and  persever- 
ance, he  has  levelled  the  forest, 
with  its  inhabitants,  to  the  earth. 

On  the  10th  of  October,    1774, 


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about  sun-rise,  the  hunters  came 
in  at  fall  speed,  and  gave  the 
appalling  information  that  a  large 
body, of  Indians  had  spread  them- 
selves from  river  to  river,  and 
were  advancing  by  slow  degrees, 
towards  the  fort;  at  the  same 
instant,  we  could  observe  the 
women  and  boys  skulking  up  and 
down  the  opposite  banks  of  the 
Ohio  and  Kanawha. 

The  position  of  the  fort  was 
peculiarly  favourable  to  a  sur- 
prise. As  I  have  above  mention- 
ed, it  was  situated  at  a  right  an- 
gular point  formed  by  the  con- 
fluence of  the  Kanawha  and  Ohio 
rivers.  The  country  above  the 
fort  was  covered  with  a  heavy 
forest  and  impervious  growth  of 
underwood,  through  which  an 
invading  force  might  penetrate 
completely  undiscovered,  to  the 
very  walls  of  the  fort.  The  gar- 
rison was  composed  of  about 
twelve  hundred  men  entirely 
Virginians,  from  the  counties  of 
Botetourt  and  Augusta.  The 
Indians  consisted  of  about  the 
same  number,  the  flower  of  the 
Shawnee,  Wyandotte  and  Min- 
goe  tribes,  who  were  command- 
ed by  the  celebrated  Chieftain, 
Cornstalk." 

"From  the  large  force  which  he 
had  collected  for  this  expedition, 
and  from  the  secrecy  of  his 
movements,  it  was  evident  that 
the  Indian  Chief,  in  this  desper- 
ate attempt  to  recover  the  coun- 
try east  of  the  Ohio  river,  medi- 


tated nothing  less  than  an  entire 
extermination  of  the  garrison. 
General  Lewis  ordered  out  about 
seven  hundred  of  his  rangers, 
under  the  command  of  his  neph- 
ew, Colonel  Charles  Lewis;  with 
the  remaining  part  of  his  troops, 
about  five  hundred  in  number, 
he  determined  to  act  as  a  reserve 
and  defend  the  fort  to  extremi- 
ties. " 

"I  happened  to  be  among  those 
who  were  ordered  out,  very 
much  against  my  will;  but  it  was 
neck  or  nothing;  we  advanced 
about  three  hundred  yards  in 
front  of  the  fort,  toward  a  deep 
ravine  which  intersected  the  val- 
ley at  the  right  angles  with  the 
Kanawha.  All  was  still  as  death; 
one  moment  more  and  a  yell  min- 
gled with  the  roar  of  a  thousand 
rifles,  rung  from  river  to  river, 
and  at  the  same  moment  every 
bush  and  tree  seemed  alive  with 
armed  savages.  Col.  Lewis  was 
killed  at  .the  first  fire,  but  the 
rangers  mantained  their  ground, 
and  a  contest  commenced  more 
desperate  and  more  rapidly  fatal 
than  any  which  had  ever  been 
fought  with  the  Aboriginese,  ex- 
cepting that  of  Talledaga.  The 
Indian  Chief,  with  that  prompt- 
ness for  seizing  an  advantage, 
and  that  peculiar  military  tact 
for  which  he  was  so  much  re- 
nowned, extended  his  line  from 
the  Ohio  as  far  as  it  would 
stretch  across  to  the  Kanawha 
bank,  for  the  purpose  of  out- 


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flanking  the  opposing-  forces. 
But,  in  the  execution  of  this  ma- 
noeuvre, he  was  completely 
foiled  by  the  superior  address 
and  boldness  of  the  whites  who, 
animated  with  revenge  for  the 
loss  of  their  leader  and  a  con- 
sciousness of  their  desperate 
situation,  fought  with  a  fury 
that  supplied  the  inequality  of 
numbers,  and  set  at  defiance 
every  stratagem  of  the  savages." 
"Finding  that  his  method  of 
outflanking  would  not  succeed, 
the  Indian  Chief  concentrated 
his  forces,  and  furiously  attacked 
the  centre  of  the  Virginia  line. 
The  savages,  animated  by  their 
warlike  and  noble  Chieftan, 
Cornstalk,  forgot  the  craftiness 
of  their  nature,  and  rushing 
from  their  coverts,  engaged  hand 
to  hand  with  their  stout  and 
hardy  adversaries,  until  the 
contest  resembled  more  a  -cir- 
cus of  gladiators  than  a  field  of 
battle.  I  became  desperate;  hide 
where  I  would,  the  muzzle  of 
some  rifle  was  gaping-  in  mv 
face,  and  the  wild,  distorted 
countenance  of  a  savage,  render- 
he  more  frig-htful  by  paint,  was 
trushing-  towards  me  with  uplift- 
ed tomahawk  One  fellow  in 
particular,  seemed  to  mark  me 
as  his  victim;  I  levelled  my  rifle 
at  him  as  he  came  yelling  and 
leaping  towards  me,  and  fired. 
The  ball  missed  my  aim.  He 
rose  upon  his  toes  with  exulta- 
tion,  and  whirling  his  tomahawk 


round  his  head,  slung  it  at  me 
with  all  his  powers.  I  fell  upon 
my  face,  and  it  whizzed  harmless 
over  my  head  and  stuck  into  a 
sapling.  I  bounded  up  and 
forced  it  from  the  tree,  but  the 
Indian  was  on  me  and  rescued 
the  hatchet  from  my  hands.  I 
seized  him  round  the  waist,  en- 
closing- both  his  arms  at  the 
same  time  and  tripping  up  his 
heels,  we  rolled  together  upon 
the  ground.  I  at  last  grew 
furious,  gouged  him  with  my 
thumbs  in  both  eyes,  and  seizing 
him  with  my  teeth  by  the  nose, 
I  bit  the  whole  of  it  from  his 
face;  he  yelled  out  with  pain  and 
rage,  and  letting  loose  the  hatch- 
et to  disengage  my  teeth,  I 
grasped  the  handle  and  buried 
the  sharp  point  into  his  brains. 
He  gave  one  convulsive  leap 
which  bounced  me  from  his 
body,  and  in  a  moment  after  ex- 
pired. I  immediately  rose,  and 
gaining  a  secure  position  behind 
a  tree,  remained  there  till  the 
close  of  the  fight,  and  made  a 
thousand  resolutions,  if  I  sur- 
vived this  engagement,  never  to 
be  caught  in  such  a  scrape  again. 
I  kept  my  word;  for,  I  have  never 
since  encountered  the  savages, 
and  if  Heaven  forgives  me,  I 
never  will.  There  is  no  fun  in 
it." 

"But,  to  return  to  the  history 
of  this  ever  memorable  battle. 
There  was  a  peninsula  extend- 
ing from  a  high  range  of  hills, 


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running  parallel  with  the  Ohio 
river,  which  jutted  close  to  the 
Kanawha  bank,  about  a  half  a 
mile  from  its  mouth.  Knowing 
the  importance  of  securing-  the 
narrow  pass  which  ran  between 
its  base  and  the  river,  the  Indian 
Chief  despatched  a  picked  body 
of  his  troops  to  take  possession 
of  it.  They  entered  the  dry  bed 
of  a  small  creek  which  skirted 
the  foot  of  the  hills,  and  pursued 
their  route  unnoticed  till  they 
were  about  to  enter  the  import- 
ant pass,  when  a  shower  of  rifle 
bullets  pierced  their  body  and 
swept  down  the  foremost  i*anks. 
A  chosen  band  of  rangers  at  the 
same  moment  made  their  appear- 
ance, with  whom  General  Lewis 
in  anticipation  had  guarded  the 
pass.  A  yell  of  surprise  and 
rage  burst  from  the  savage  line, 
and  they  seconded  their  return- 
ing fire  by  an  unanimous  and 
desperate  charge  with  the  hunt- 
ing-knife. The  contest  now  as- 
sumed all  the  wild  and  terrific 
cast  which  a  personal  struggle, 
conducted  with  the  deadly  feel- 
ings of  hate  and  revenge  then 
existing  between  the  whites  and 
Indians,  could  inspire.  The  air 
was  filled  with  the  screams  of 
the  savages  and  the  deep  impre- 
cations of  the  riflemen;  every 
blow  brought  death,  and  the 
ground  was  soon  heaped  with 
the  corpses  of  the  combatants. 
But  the  disappointed  efforts  of 
savage  desperation  were  inef- 


fectual against  the  unbroken 
and  impenetrable  column  which 
was  maintained  by  the  whites; 
and  the  Indians  were  driven, 
with  the  loss  of  half  their  force, 
back  upon  the  main  body.  Here, 
the  fight  still  raged  in  the  ex- 
tremity of  opposition,  every  inch 
of  ground  was  contested,  from 
behind  every  bush  and  decayed, 
log  the  murderous  flash  arose, 
and  the  continued  roar  of  a 
thousand  rifles  vibrated  through 
the  forest/' 

"The  savage  Chieftian  discover- 
ed that  the  chances  against  him 
were  desperate,  yet,  by  his  own 
personal  example  of  courage  and 
address,  was  the  fight  long-  sus- 
tained, even  after  his  line  had 
been  driven,  step  by  step,  from 
their  original  position.  His  voice 
could  at  intervals  be  heard,  ris- 
ing above  the  din  of  the  fight  like 
the  shrill  blast  of  a  bugle;  at  one 
moment,  bis  dusky  form  and 
glittering  ornaments  could  be 
seen  flitting  through  the  trees 
upon  the  Ohio  bank,  and  his  war- 
cry  in  the  next  would  fill  the 
echoes  of  the  hill  at  the  farthest 
extremity  of  the  line.  A  cheer- 
ing ejaculation  of  triumph  would 
one  moment  escape  him,  as  an 
advantage  was  gained  by  the  de- 
voted gallantry  of  some  Shawnee 
warrior;  an  imprecation  upon 
some  skulking  Mingoe,  in  a 
short  time  afterwards,  would  be 
recognized  in  his  voice.  "Charge 
high  and  aim  low"  was  his  com- 


mand  incessantly  throughout  the 
day;  and,  it  is  one  of  the  circum- 
stances remarked  of  that  fatal 
fight,  that  most  of  the  bullet- 
wounds  received  by  the  whites 
proved  mortal;  but  few  of  the 
wounded  ever  recovered.  Yet, 
all  the  efforts  of  the  old  warrior 
were  vain;  defeated  and  discour- 
aged, the  savage  army  almost 
abandoned  the  fight  in  the  latter 
part  of  the  day,  and  it  was  re- 
duced to  a  mere  straggling  fire 
between  individuals  of  the  con- 
tending parties." 

"Night  closed  upon  the  scene, 
yet  the  ground  was  still  occupied 
by  the  two  armies.  Although 
victorious,  the  Virginians  could 
neither  press  their  advantage 
nor  retire  to  rest.  An  ambus- 
cade or  a  night  attack  was  ex- 
pected from  the  savages,  and 
their  behaviour  warranted  the 
latter  supposition.  For,  behind 
a  long  line  of  watch-fires,  they 
could  be  discovered  as  if  cau- 
tiously examining  the  points 
most  open  to  attack.  The  wild 
scream  of  a  savage  warrior,  ap- 
parently advancing  to  the  fight, 
would  at  intervals  break  upon 
the  death  like  stillness  of  the 
night,  and  cause  my  heart  to 
leap  almost  out  of  my  mouth.  I 
confidently  calculated  that  every 
moment  was  the  time  for  their 
attack,  and  fancied  divers  times 
could  hear  them  stealing  through 
the  bushes  upon  us.  The  gleams 
of  the  morning  sun,  however,  at 


length  illumined  the  scene,  but 
not  a  vestige  of  the  Indian  army 
remained;  the  living  and  the  dead 
had  alike  disappeared,  and  it 
was  not  until  then,  it  was  ascer- 
tained or  even  suspected,  that 
the  savages  had  secure  them- 
selves from  interruption,  under 
pretense  of  a  night  attack,  had 
thrown  their  dead,  with  weights 
attached  to  them,  in  the  river, 
and  retreated  across  it  under 
cover  of  darkness." 

Of  the  men  who  participated 
in  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant, 
we  regret  that  no  complete  ros 
ter  has  been  preserved.  How- 
ever, the  men  who  were  in  that 
army  were  friends  and  neigh- 
bors, and  many  of  them  related 
by  ties  of  blood  and  marriage,  so 
that  a  review  of  a  few  of  them 
will  indicate  (he  character  of  the 
men  composing  the  army. 

It  will  be  seen  by  a  review  of 
the  history  of  the  colonies  that 
prior  to  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant,  not  only  the  Colonists 
but  England  knew,  as  did  Pat- 
rick Henry  when  he  made  his 
famous  speech  that  "The  War 
was  inevitable."  The  British 
Government  seeing  the  fomenta- 
tion in  the  colonies  had  made  re- 
peated concessions;  willing  to  re- 
linquish, if  necessary,  all  but  the 
principle  of  the  Right  of  England 
to  levy  taxes  upon  the  Colonists 
without  giving  them  representa- 
tion in  the  British  Government. 
The  Colonists  were  astir  with 


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intense  excitement.  The  tea  had 
been  thrown  over  board  in  Bos- 
ton Harbor  and  the  Port  had  been 
closed  by  a  bill  passed  by  Parli- 
mentin  March  of  thatyear.  Meet- 
ings had  been  and  were  being  held 
protesting-  against  Royal  oppres- 
sion. That  powerful  engine  of 
resistance,  Committees  of  Corre- 
spondence had  been  formulating 
their  ideas  of  resistance  and  the 
Virginia  Assembly  convened  at 
Williamsburg  in  May,  had  pass- 
ed an  independant  resolution  set- 
ting forth  that  June  1st,  1774, 
should  upon  the  making  effective 
of  the  Port  Bill  be  made  "a  day 
of  fasting  and  prayer  to  implore 
the  divine  interposition  for  avert- 
ing the  heavy  calamity,  which 
threatens  the  civil  right  of 
America;"  whereupon,  the  Earl 
of  Dtmmore,  then  Governor  of 
Virginia,  at  once  dissolved  the 
Assembly.  The  Continental  Con- 
gress had  already  convened  and 
its  every  breath  was  ladened 
with  resistance  of  British  op- 
pression. 

Is  it  to  be  wondered  at  and 
is  it-  not  the  most  natural 
thing  in  the  world,  that  Dun- 
more  would  try  to  devise  ways 
and  means  to  prevent  Virginia 
from  participating  in  the  federa- 
tion of  the  Colonies;  and  what 
more  powerful  instrument  could 
he"  have  set  in  motion  to  distract 
their  attention  from  the  clouds 
gathering  in  the  East,  than  by 
setting  in  motion  a  band  of  howl- 


ing Indians  on  the  frontier, 
making  it  an  absolute  necessity 
that  Virginia  protect  her  homes, 
her  women  and  children  and  her 
property  rights,  and  this  danger 
so  eminent,  could  not  be  delayed. 
So  calling  together  the  flower  of 
the  Colonial  Army  of  Virginia, 
which  he  promised  should  be 
united  and  together  encounter 
the  Indians  in  their  homes,  he 
should  cause  one  branch  to  alone 
be  attacked,  hoping  they  would 
thus  be  destroyed  and  if  only 
temporarially  defeated,  they 
would  be  so  busy  protecting  the 
frontier  and  their  homes  they 
would  have  no  time  to  go  into 
the  Colonial  Army,  confederated 
as  they  would  be  to  resist  tne  Brit- 
ish Army,  already  many  of  whom 
were  camping  upon  the  plains  of 
Boston.  But  to  the  surprise  of 
Dunmore  the  Division  of  Lewis' 
Army  was  victorious  and  the  tide 
of  American  interests  was 
changed. 

Without  the  Army  of  Lewis, 
which  was  the  great  mil- 
itary training  school  of  the  Colo- 
ny, many  of  whom  went  on  into 
the  Revolution  and  became  many 
of  them,  officers  of  high  rank,  it 
would  have  been  impossible  for 
Virginia  to  have  raised  her  quoto 
of  men  and  officers  to  have  partici- 
pated in  that  struggle  for  liber- 
ty; and  without  Virginia  the 
Colonists  would  have  thought  it 
impossible,  as  it  would  have  been, 
to  have  undertaken  that  strug- 


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gle  for  independance.  Without 
the  entire  support  that  Vir- 
ginia gave  George  Rodgers  Clark 
who  was  in  the  Dunmore  divis- 
ion, but  who  later  conquered  the 
North  WestTerritory,  weakening 
the  otherwise  impregnable  back- 
ground that  constantly  threaten- 
ed the  frontier  and  in  whose 
territory  did  not  close  the  strug- 
gle for  American  Independance 
until  Waynes  treaty  twenty 
years  later. 

We  think  the  opinions  of  the 
early  writers  of  history  we  have 
quoted,  the  natural  circum- 
stances surrounding  Dunmore 
at  and  previous  to  the  Battle, 
makes  it  plain  that  although  the 
battle  was  between  the  Colonists 
and  Indians  it  is  beyond  doubt 
the  first  Battle  of  the  Revolution, 
and  the  Goverment  of  the  United 
States,  while  it  has  been  tardy, 
is  fully  justified  in  making  the 
declaration  that  the  $10.000  ap- 
propriated for  the  erection  of  a 
monument  is 

"An  act  to  aid  in  the  erection 
of  a  memorial  structure  at  Point 
Pleasant,  West  Virginia,  to  com- 
memorate the  Battle  of  the  Revo- 
lution, fought  at  that  point  be- 
tween the  Colonial  troops  and 
Indians,  October  10th,  seventeen 
hundred  and  seventy  four." 

While  a  shaft  82  feet  high  will 
stand  as  a  sentinel  upon  the  site 
where  the  dead  were  buried,  form 
whence  the  battle  was  directed 
and  subsequently  the  fort,  built, 


it  is  a  pigmy  as  compared  with 
the  fact  that  at  last,  after  a  lapse 
of  One  Hundred  and  thirty-four 
years,  the  Congress]of  the  United 
States  has  officially  called  it  as  it 
is  a  battle  of  the  Revolution,  and 
if  a  battle  of  the  Revolution  it 
must  of  necessity  be  the  first,  as 
the  hallowed  Lexington  was  not 
fought,  until  April  19th,  1775, 
while  that  of  Point  Pleasant,  was 
fought  October  10th,  1774. 

The  battle  in  its  acquisition 
of  territory  ceded  by  the  Indians 
and  previously  ceded  by  France 
to  Virginia  but  literally  in  con- 
trol of  the  Indians  until  this 
time,  this  followed  by  the  ceding 
of  all  the  vast  territory  of  the 
Great  North  West  by  Virginia 
to  the  infant  republic  at  the  close 
of  the  Revolution  with  the  cessa- 
tion of  Indian  hostilities  fol- 
lowing the  battle,  permitting  the 
the  Colonists  to  turn  their  atten- 
tion to  the  expulsion  of  the  Eng-- 
lish  army  and  the  overthrow  of 
the  British  yoke,  the  moral  ef- 
fect that  it  had  on  Virginia,  and 
and  thus  on  the  Colonies,  made 
it  the  farthest  reaching  in  its  ef- 
fect an  battle  ever  fought 
on  the  American  Continent. 

The  name  of  every  man  who 
participated  in  that  struggle 
whether  he  protected  the  fron- 
tier nearer  home  while  the  band 
of  stalwarts  went  forth  to  con- 
quer the  Indians  and  make  se- 
cure the  wilderness,  the  men  of 
Wm.  Christian's  Regiment  who 


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rendered  such  valliant  service, 
comingas  they  did  whenthebattle 
was  over,  the  army  exhausted 
wounded  and  bleeding  and  in 
time  to  gather  up  and  bury  the 
slain,  should  all  be  honored  and 
preserved.  Christain's  men  were 
only  delayed  by  their  effort  to 
bring  in  supplies  to  the  Army  of 
54000  pounds  of  flour  on  400  pack 
horses  but  108  additional  head  of 
cattle.  They  expected  to  join 


Lewis  Army  and  together  march 
on  to  encounter  the  Indians 
upon  the  Pickaway  Planes; 
so  that  as  a  part  of  the  Army 
they  are  entitled  to  be  enrolled 
with  the  heroes  of  that  battle, 
which  will  be  followed  by  the 
roster  so  far  as  the  writer  has 
been  able  to  glean  from  all  avail- 
able sources,  after  many  years 
of  careful  research. 


GENERAL  ANDREW  LEWI8 


Biographical 


General  Andrew  Lewis 

Gen.  Andrew  Lewis,  the  hero 
of  the  Battle  was  not  only  a  gen- 
tleman of  education  and  refine- 
ment, but  was  a  past  master  in 
the  art  of  military  tactics,  Leav- 
ing entered  upon  his  career  in 
1742  as  Captain  of  Malitia  and 
ten  years  later  as  head  of  Mali- 
tia of  bis  county.  He  was  with 
Washington  at  Great  Meadows 
and  Fort  Necessity  in  1754, 
when  he  was  twice  wounded. 
In  1755,  he  was  detailed  to  build 
forts  hence  was  not  present  at 
Braddock's  disaster.  In  1756, 
he  led  the  Big  Sandy  expedition 
against  the  Shawnees.  In  1758, 
when,  with  Washington  and  Gen. 
Forbes,  at  Fort  DuQuesne,  he 
was  wounded. 

He  surrendered  to  a  French 
officer,  was  imprisoned  at  Mon- 
treal, was  exchanged  and  saw 
active  service.  In  1762  at  his 
request  his  company  was  dis- 


banded. In  1763  be  was  ap- 
pointed to  Lieut,  for  Augusta 
Co. 

We  next  find  him  a  member  of 
the  Virginia  House  of  Burgesses 
and  a  member  of  a  committee  to 
negotiate  treaties.  It  was  while 
thus  engaged  at  the  treaty  of 
Fort  Stanwix  that  the  Governor 
of  New  York  said  of  him,  "He 
looks  like  a  genius  of  the  forest, 
and,  the  very  ground  seems  to 
tremble  under  him  as  he  walks 
along."  It  is  from  Col.  Stewart, 
his  biographer,  we  learn  that 
"He  was  upwards  of  six  feet 
high,  of  uncommon  strength  nnd 
agility,  and  his  form  of  the  most 
exact  symmetry  He  had  a 
stern  countenance  'and  was  of  a 
reserved  and  distant  deportment, 
which  rendered  his  presence 
more  awful  than  engaging." 
While  Mr.  Alexander  Reed,  of 
Rockbridge  County,  Virginia, 
who  was  with  him  at  Point 


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Pleasant,  describes  him  thus; 
''He  was  a  man  of  reserved  man- 
ners, and  great  dignity  of  char- 
acter— somewhat  of  the  order  of 
General  Washington."  General 
Washington  held  him  in  such  es- 
teem that  ne  recommended  that 
he  be  made  commander-in-chief 
of  the  Continental  army. 

The  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant 
was  not  only  the  pivotal  point  in 
the  life  of  the  nation,  but  in  the 
life  of  General  Lewis  as  well. 
Heretofore  he  had  fought  as  a 
British  subject.  In  defying  the 
orders  of  Lord  Dunmore,  the 
Tory  Governor,  he  was  not  only 
among  the  first  to  defy  Briton, 
but  the  first  to  take  up  arms  in 
defiance  of  British  authority  and 
from  this  time  on  we  find  him 
enlisted  in  the  cause  of  the  col- 
onists as  against  the  English 
Crown.  It  seems  the  irony  of 
fate  that  he  should  not  have 
lived  to  witness  the  surrender  at 
Yorktown.  While  enroute  home 
he  died  of  a  fever  at  the  home  of 
bis  friend,  Col.  Buford,  and  was 
taken  to  his  own  estate  "Rich- 
field" where  his  remains  were 
interred  Sept.  20,  1731,  near  the 
town  of  Salem,  where  they  re- 
posed for  many  years  in  an  un- 
marked and  neglected  grave. 
A  few  years  ago,  the  Ladies  of 
the  Margaret  Lynn  Lewis  Chap- 
ter, Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution,  of  Roanoke,  Virginia, 
had  his  remains  (which  were 
found  well  preserved)  removed 


to  the  East  Hill  Salem  Cemetery, 
where,  in  1902,  they  erected  a 
stately  shaft  to  his  memory. 
One  of  the  six  figures  of  Roger's 
equestrian  statute  at  Richmond, 
commemorating  famous  Virgin- 
ians, is  that  of  General  Andrew 
Lewis,  but  the  greatest  of  his 
monuments  is  builded  in  the 
hearts  of  a  grateful  American 
Republic. 

Beside  his  brother  Col.  Charles 
Lewis,  and  John,  son  of  his 
brother  William,  Andrew  had 
three  sons  in  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant.  What  greater  love 
can  a  man  have  for  his  country 
than,  like  Jacob  of  old,  to  lay  his 
sons  as  a  sacrifice  on  his  coun- 
try's altar? 

Col.  Charles  Lewis 

While  Andrew  Lewis  is  known 
as  the  "Hero  of  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant,"  his  brother, 
Col.  Charles  Lewis,  a  brave  sol- 
dier, too,  was  called  "The  idol 
of  the  army."  While  Andrew 
had  devoted  his  life  to  the  cause 
of  his  adopted  country,  he  hav- 
ing been  born  in  Ireland  where 
his  parents  were  then  residing, 
it  was  reserved  for  Col.  Charles 
to  embody  the  completeness  of 
American  association,  he  having 
been  born  in  America,  being 
the  youngest  child  of  John  Lewis 
and  Margaret  Lynn  Lewis. 
Thus  he  had  the  distinction  not 
only  of  dying  on  American  soil, 
but  als  o  of  having  been  born 
there;  in  1733,  in  the  county  of 


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Augusta,  State  of  Virginia,  and 
was  thus  all  his  life  known  of 
Virginia,  loved  of  Virginia  and 
he  sacrificed  his  life,  satisfied 
that  he  had  given  to  Virginia 
her  lull  measure  of  devotion. 
He  was  mortally  wounded  while 
leading  a  division  of  the  army  at 
the  outset  of  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant  and  later  was  led  to  his 
tent  where  in  a  few  hours  he  ex-* 
pired.  Col.  Andrew  Lewis,  his 
nephew  who  was  engaged  in  the 
battle,  says  "He  received  his 
wound  early  in  the  action  but 
did  not  let  it  be  known  until  he* 
had  gotten  the  line  of  battle  ex- 
tended from  the  Ohio  to  Crooked 
Creek,  after  which  he  asked 
Captain  Murray,  his  brother  in 
law,  to  let  him  lean  on  his  shoul- 
der and  walk  with  him  to  his 
tent,  where  he  expired  about  12 
o'clock."  Captain  A  r  buckle 
states  that  he  received  a  wound 
which  in  a  few  hours  caused  his 
death.  Roosevelt's  winning  of 
the  West  says  "The  attack  fell 
first  and  with  especial  fury,  on 
the  division  of  Charles  Lewis 
who  himself  was  mortally  wound- 
ed at  the  very  outset,  be  had  not 
taken  a  tree  (the  frontier  expres- 
sion for  covering  oneself  behind 
a  tree  trunk)  but  was  in  an  open 
piece  of  ground,  cheering  on  his 
men  when  he  was  shot.  He 
stayed  with  them  until  the  line 
was  formed,  and  then  walked 
back  to  camp  unassisted,  giving 
his  gun  to  a  man  who  was  near 


him  '  Howe  says  of  him. 
"Charles  Lewis  was  esteemed 
the  most  skillful  ot  all  the  lead- 
ers of  the  border  warfare  and 
was  as  much  beloved  for  his 
noble  and  amiable  qualities  as  he 
was  admired  for  his  military 
talents."  On  page  182  of 
Howe's  Virginia  Its  History  & 
Antiquities,  we  find  a  sketch 
from  his  life; 

"Charles  Lewis,  the  youngest 
son  of  John,  is  said  never  to  have 
spent  one  month  at  a  time  out  of 
active  and  arduous  service. 
Charles  was  the  hero  of  many 
a  gallant  exploit,  which  is 
still  trea'sured  in  the  memories 
of  the  descendants  of  the  bor- 
der riflemen,  and  there  are  few 
families  among  the  Alleghanies 
where  the  name  and  deeds  of 
Charles  Lewis  are  not  familiar 
as  household  words.  On  one  oc- 
casion, Charles  was  captured  by 
the  Indians  while  on  a  hunting 
excursion,  and  after  having  trav- 
eled some  two  hundred  miles, 
barefoot,  his  arms  pinioned  be- 
hind him,  goaded  on  by  the 
knives  of  his  remorseless  cap- 
tors, he  effected  his  escape. 
While  traveling  along  the  bank 
of  a  precipice  some  twenty  feet 
in  height,  he  suddenly,  by  a 
strong  muscular  exertion,  burst 
the  cords  which  bound  him,  and 
plunged  down  the  steep  into  the 
bed  of  a  mountain  torrent.  His 
persecutors  hesitated  not  to  fol- 
low. In  a  race  of  several  him- 


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dred  yards,  Lewis  had  gained 
some  few  yards  upon  his  pur- 
suers, when,  upon  leaping  a 
prostrate  tree  which  lay  across 
his  course,  his  strength  sudden- 
ly failed,  and  he  fell  prostrate 
among-  the  weeds  which  had 
grown  up  in  great  luxuriance 
around  the  body  of  the  tree, 
Three  of  the  Indians  sprang 
over  the  tree  within  a  few  feet 
of  where  their  prey  lay  conceal- 
cealed;  but  with  a  feeling  of  the 
most  devout  thankfulness  to  a 
kind  and  superintending  Provi- 
dence, he  saw  them  one  by  one* 
disappear  in  the  dark  recesses 
of  the  forest.  He  now  bethought 
himself  of  rising  from  his  un- 
easy bed,  when  lo  a  new  enemy 
appeared,  in  the  shape  of  an 
enormous  rattlesnake,  who  had 
thrown  himself  into  the  deadly 
coil  so  near  bis  face  tnat  his 
fangs  were  within  a  few  inches 
of  his  nose;  and  his  enormous 
rattle,  as  it  waved  to  and  fro, 
once  rested  upon  his  ear.  A 
single  contraction  of  the  e>elid — 
a  convulsive  shudder — the  relax- 
ation of  a  single  muscle,  and  the 
deadly  beast  would  have  sprung 
upon  him.  In  this  situation  he 
lay  for  several  minutes,  when 
the  reptile,  probably  supposing 
him  to  be  dead,  crawled  over  his 
body  and  moved  slowly  away. 
"I  had  eaten  nothing,'  said 
Lewis  to  his  companions,  after 
his  return,  "for  many  days;  I  had 
no  fire-arms,  and  I  ran  the  risk 


of  dying  with  hunger,  ere  I 
could  reach  the  settlement;  but 
rather  would  I  have  died,  than 
made  a  meal  of  the  generous 
beast'." 

Kercheval's  History  of  the 
Valley,  describes  the  attire  cf 
Col.  Charles  Lewis  on  that  day, 
at  page  114,  as  follows:  "  ol 
Chas.  Lewis,  who  had  arrayed 
himself  in  a  gorgeous  scarlet 
waistcoat,  against  the  advice  of 
his  friends,  thus  rendering  him- 
self a  conspicuous  mark  for  the 
Indians,  was  mortally  wounded 
early  in  action;  yet  was  able  to 
walk  back  after  receiving  the 
wound,  into  his  own  tent,  where 
he  expired.  He  was  met  on  his 
way  by  the  commander-in-chief, 
his  brother,  Col.  Andrew  Lewis, 
who  remarked  to  him,"  I  expect- 
ed something  fatal  would  befall 
you,"  to  which  the  wounded 
officer  calmly  replied,  "It  is  the 
fate  of  war."  The  same  author 
says  at  page  115,  "Col.  Lewis,  a 
distinguished  and  meritorious 
officer,  was  moi  tally  wounded 
by  the  fi:st  fire  of  the  Indians, 
but  walked  into  the  camp  and 
expired  in  his  own  tent." 

Peyton's  History  of  Augusta 
County  says  "He  abandoned 
himself  too  much  to  his  passion 
for  glory  and  forgot  the  wide 
difference  between  an  officer  and 
a  private,  fie  was  not  inferior 
to  his  brother,  the  General,  in 
courage,  intrepidity  and  military 
genius;  he  surpassed  him  in 


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some  respects,  he  knew  how  to 
oblige  with  a  better  grace,  how 
to  win  the  hearts  of  those  about 
him,  with  a  more  engaging-  be- 
havior. He  consequently  ac- 
quired the  esteem  and  affection 
of  his  men,  in  a  most  remarka- 
ble manner.  To  perpetuate  the 
memory  of  his  public  and  private 
virtues,  his  eminent  services  in 
the  field  and  his  heroic  fate,  the 
General  Assembly  of  Virginia, 
in  1816,  named  Lewis  County  in 
bis  honor." 

Col.    Charles    !  ewi's 

By  his  kinsmen  be  was  consid- 
ered the  "flower  of  the  flock." 
Like  his  brother,  he  was  a  man 
of  splendid  physique  and  without 
disparaging  his  kindred,  he  was 
best  loved  because  of  his  high 
degree  of  morality,  spotless  in- 
tegrity and  acknowledged  brave- 
ry. His  long  and  active  military 
career  had  made  him  a  hero  in 
the  eyes  of  bis  comrades  from 
the  Braddock  campaign  to  the 
hour  of  his  death,  and  while  had 
he  lived,  he  doubtless  would  have 
added  new  lustre  to  his  name  in 
the  continued  struggle  of  the 
Revolution;  after  all,  he  had  but 
one  life  to  offer  up  to  his  country 
and  at  this  crucial  moment  no 
doubt  it  was  needed  most.  His 
conduct  inspired  the  army. 
The  sacrifice  of  bis  life  armed 
anew  his  companies  and  stimu- 
lated them  to  greater  feats  of 
daring.  Thwaite's  Dunmnre 
War  sa^s  "Charles  Lewis  was 


popular  and  beloved  by  all  the 
western  army.  His  loss  was 
a  general  affliction."  Dr.  Bale's 
"Trans-Allegheny  says:  "Col- 
onel Charles  Lewis  was  said  to 
be  the  idol  of  the  army.  He  had 
a  large,  active  and  honorable 
military  experience  from  Brad- 
dock's  War  down  to  death.  And 
it  is  believed  that  he  would  have 
achieved  greater  honors  and  dis- 
tinction in  the  Revolutionary 
struggle,  if  his  life  had  been 
spared,  but  his  brilliant  career 
was  ended  in  glory  on  this  field." 

The  charge  he  made  at  Point 
Pleasant  was  in  the  face  of  a 
fearless  band  of  adversaries. 
When  Gen.  Andrew  Lewis  select- 
ed his  brother  to  take  command 
of  the  left  wing  of  the  army  in 
the  first  attempt  to  repulse  Corn- 
stalk and  his  fearful  braves,  he 
selected  his  brother  to  bear  that 
peril,  not  that  he  loved  him  less, 
but  that  he  knew  the  army  need- 
ed his  courageous  example.  Col. 
William  Preston,  in  writing  of 
bis  death  to  Patrick  Henry, 
said:  "Poor  Charles  Lewis  was 
shot  in  clear  ground,  encourag- 
ing his  men  to  advance.  If  the 
loss  of  a  good  man,  a  sincere 
friend,  a  brave  officer  deserves  a 
tear  he  certainly  is  entitled  to  it." 

At  the  close  of  the  conflict,  his 
mortal  remains  were  laid  to  rest 
upon  the  reservation  of  forty 
feet  square  upon  the  present 
sight  of  Tu  Endie  Wei  Park, 
where  the  Kanawha  and  Ohio 


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meet.  Here,  be  is  buried  beside 
the  other  dead  of  that  battle. 
No  stone  as  yet  has  ever  mark- 
ed his  resting  place,  save  the  four 
granite  corner  stones  erected  in 
1005  by  the  Col.  Charles  Lewis 
Chapter  Daughters  of  the  Aineri 
can  Revolution  at  Point  Pleasant. 
While  no  monument  has  as  yet 
been  reared  to  mark  the  last  rest- 
ing place  of  this  great  man,  a 
tribute  due  him  from  his  own 
loved  ones,  as  well  as  from  a 
grateful  nation;  it  is  equally  a 
matter  of  congratulation  that 
though  tardy  the  goverment  has 
donated  a  small  amount  §10.000 
which  with  the  $6.000  in  the 
bands  of  the  State  Commission 
has  been  pledged  in  the  contract 
let  for  a  monument.  But  greater 
than  this  monument  is  the  recog- 
nition of  the  Goverment  of  the 
status  of  the  battle  as  regards 
the  Revolution,  standing,  as  it 
does,  on  the  heels  of  Indian 
depredations  on  the  western 
frontier  and  on  the  threshold  of 
the  American  Revolution  for  Am- 
erican Independence.  This  hon- 
or so  longdelayed,  will  at  last  have 
written  this  page  of  American 
history  correctly  when  a  stately 
monument  shall  bear  the  inscrip- 
tion: 

Battle  of  Point  Pleasant 

October  10,  1774. 

First    Battle    of   the    American 

Revolution. 

Col.  John  Field 

Col.    John    Field  born  in  Cul- 


pepper  County  in  1720  of  good 
family  is  buried  beside  Col. 
Charles  Lewis,  his  friend  and 
comrade.  He  received  his  fatal 
wound  at  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant,  while  bravely  checking 
the  Indians.  He  rallied  his 
troops  who  had  begun  to  waver, 
and,  for  a  time,  seemed  likely  to 
be  repulsed.  Col.  Field  had 
been  with  Braddock  and  had 
seen  frontier  service  from  that 
date,  both  as  a  militia  officer  and 
as  a  surve3*or.  In  1765  he  served 
in  the  Virginia  Legislature,  in 
1766  he  was  made  Colonel  of 
Malitia.  His  troops  at  Point 
Pleasant  were  a  volunteer  compa- 
ny, raised  by  him  in  his  own 
county  which  he  united  with  that 
of  Gen.  Lewi«. 

Col.  William  Flemming 

Col.  William  Flemming  was 
renewed  not  only  as  a  military 
genius,  but  as  a  learned  physi- 
cian and  gentleman  of  culture. 
While  twice  severely  wounded  at 
the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  he 
recovered  and  was  subsequently 
acting  Governor  of  the  State  of 
Virginia.  He  was  a  Scotchman 
of  proud  lineage.  Born  Feb.  18, 
1729.  Prior  to  Dunmores  war 
he  was  Lieut,  under  Gen.  Forbes 
in  1760-61.  In  1762  he  wasCapt. 
under  Col.  Adam  Stephens  at 
Vaux's  and  Stonakers  forts.  In 
1763  he  married  Anne  Christian. 
His  home  was  at  "Belmont"  in 
Montgomery  Co.  The  wounds 
he  received  at  Point  Pleasant 


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disabled  him  for  active  perticipa- 
tion  at  the  war  of  the  Revolution, 
but  be  was  County  Lieutenant, 
in  further  defense,  in  his  country 
against  Indians  and  State  Sen- 
ator 1780-81,  acting  Governor  dur- 
ing the  Cornwallis  invasion  1781 
Twice  commissioner  to  settle 
local  battles  with  Kentucky; 
member  Virginia  convention  rat- 
ifying the  constitution  of  1788. 
He  was  benevolent  and  beloved 
and  as  a  physician  and  surgeon 
his  ministration  to  humanity  was 
most  extensive.  His  death  Aug. 
24th,  1795  was  the  result  of 
wounds  received  at  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant. 

Capt.    Evan  Shelby 

Capt.  Shelby,  who  with  his 
two  sons,  was  in  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant,  was  a  ranking 
officer  after  the  death  of  Colonels 
Lewis  and  Field  and  the  wound- 
ing of  Fleming,  until  the  arrival 
of  Colonel  Christian's  regiment. 
It  was  Evan  Shelby  who,  with 
his  and  the  companies  of  Math- 
ews  and  Stewart  in  the  ruse,  ex- 
ecuted the  flank  movement  up 
Crooked  Creek,  thatled Cornstalk 
to  believe  that  Lewis  had  been  re- 
enforced,  possibly  by  Dunmore 
who  had  played  him  false  and 
thus  decided  the  fortunes  of  the 
day.  Captain  Shelby  became 
Colonel  Shelby  of  the  Revolution, 
whose  distinguished  career  ia 
followed  in  the  history  of  Ken- 
tucky and  Tennessee. 

He   was  born  in  Wales  in  1720, 


He  early  emigrated  to  Maryland. 
He  commanded  a  company  under 
Forbes  in  1758.  In  1771  he  set- 
tled on  the  Holston.  In  1776  he 
was  with  Christian  in  the  Cher- 
okee expedition.  In  1779  he  led 
a  successful  expedition  upon  the 
Chickamauga  towns,  having  been 
appointed  by  Virginia  a  general 
of  Malitia.  He  continued  in  the 
service  throughout  the  Revolu- 
tion engaged  principally  upon  the 
sea  board.  He  rose  to  the  rank 
of  Colonel  and  before  the  close  of 
the  war  to  that  of  General.  He 
died  at  King's  Mountain,  Dec., 
4th,  1794. 

'  Isaac    Shelby 

Isaac  Shelby  who  served  as  a 
Lieutenant  under  his  father 
Capt.  Evan  Shelby  at  the  battle 
of  Point  Pleasant,  was  born  at 
North  Mountain,  Md.,  Dec.,  llth, 
1750,  where  his  grand-father  set- 
tled upon  his  arrival  from  Wales. 
He  had  removed  with  his  father 
to  the  present  site  of  Bristol, 
Tenn.,  prior  to  the  Dunmore 
War  and  was  engaged  in  feeding 
and  herding  cattle.  He  served 
throughout  the  Revolutiou  dis- 
tinguishing himself  at  Camden, 
King's  Mountain  and  Long 
Island  Flats.  Governor  Patrick 
Henry  promoted  him  to  a  Cap- 
taincy and  commissioned  him 
Commissary  general  of  the  Vir- 
ginia forces.  When  Sevier  in 
1779  projected  the  expedition 
that  captured  the  British  stores, 
at  Chicamauga,  Shelby  epuipped 
and  supplied  the  troops  by  the 


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pledge  of  his  individual  credit. 
Governor  Tbos.  Jefferson  com 
missioned  him  a  Major  of  Vir- 
ginia, but  a  survey  proved  him 
Jo  be  a  resident  of  North  Caroli- 
na, when  he  was  appointed  a 
Colonel  by  Gov.  Caswell.  He 
distinguished  himself  at  Thick- 
etty  Fork,  Cedar  Springs  and 
Musgraves  Mills.  Retreating 
across  the  Alleghenies  after  the 
disasterous  defeat  at  Camden, 
he  with  John  Sevier  planned  the 
remarkable  campaign  which  re- 
sulted in  the  battle  of  King's 
Mountain,  the  high  water  mark 
of  the  Revolution  that  turned  the 
'tide  in  favor  of  the  patriot  army. 
He  did  valliant  service  at  the 
battle  of  the  Cowpens  as  well  as 
at  Charleston.  He  was  largely 
unstrumental  in  preserving  Ken- 
tucky to  the  Colonists  as  against 
an  alliance  with  Spain.  He  was 
six  times  chosen  a  Presidential 
elector  for  Kentucky.  ID  1812 
he  became  the  first  Governor  of 
Kentucky,  which  he  accepted 
with  great  reluctance  and  accept- 
ed only  that  he  might  again  aid 
his  country  as  against  Great 
Britain.  He  organized  4000  vol- 
unteers and  at  the  age  of  63 
years  led  them  in  person  to  the 
re-enforcement  of  Gen'l  Wm. 
Henry  Harrison  enabling  him  to 
profit  by  the  victory  of  Perry  at 
Lake  Erie.  Congress  voted  him 
a  gold  Medal,  and  the  Kentucky 
Legislature  a  vote  of  thanks. 
In  1783  he  married  Miss  Susan- 


nah, daughter  of  Captain  Na- 
thanial  Hart.  He  established 
himself  on  the  first  settlement 
and  pre-emption  granted  in  Ken- 
tucky which  he  made  his  home, 
residing  thereon  43  years.  He 
died  July  18th,  1826,  aged  76 
years.  He  was  a  strict  Presby- 
terian. 

John  Jones. 

John  Jones  was  born  in  Cul- 
pepper  County,  Virginia,  in  1755, 
and  enlisted  in  the  army  of 
Andrew  Lewis  and  was  in  the 
Battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  follow 
ing  which,  upon  his  return  to 
Culpepper}  he  enlisted  in  the 
patriot  army  and  served 
throughout  the  Revolution.  In 
1792.  he  obtained  patents  for 
land  for  359  acres  on  the 
Kanawha  River  and  that  same 
year  for  400  acres  more.  In  1797 
he  obtained  patents  for  400  acres 
in  Teays  Valley  and  land  on 
Paint  Creek,  besides  making 
purchases  from  the  state.  He 
owned  from  Paint  Creek  to  the 
Narrows  on  Kanawha,  including 
the  present  sites  of  Pratt  and 
Dego.  In  the  Clifton  Cemetery 
above  Paint  Creek,  his  remains 
were  interred,  a  slab  bearing  in- 
scription, 

"In  Memory  of  John  Jones   who 
departed   This  life  January  7, 

1838,    Aged      83    Years." 
John   Jones    married   Frances 
Morris,    a    sister    of    Win.    and 
Leonard    Morris.      He  was  hos- 
pitable and  a  good   citizen.     The 


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Baptist  Church  founded  at  Kel- 
ley's  Creek  in  1796  was  largely 
due  to  his  interest  and  generosi- 
ty. 

His  will,  recorded  March, 
1838,  mentions  his  wife,  Frances, 
and  children,  Gabriel,  who  re- 
turned to  Culpepper  County,  Va.; 
William;  Nancy  who  married 
--  Huddleston;  Thomas; 
Levi;  and  Frances,  who  married 
Sbelton  and  were  the  progeni- 
tors of  the  prominent  Nicholas 
County,  W.  Va.,  family  of  that 
name. 

John  Draper. 

Lieut.  John  Draper,  of  the 
Battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  was 
born  in  1730,  and  was  one  of  the 
pioneer  settlers  of  Drapers 
Meadows,  where,  in  1755,  occur- 
red that  dreadful  massacre,  in 
which  his  wife  and  sister  were 
captured  by  the  Indians.  In  1765, 
he  removed  to  Drapers  Valley 
on  the  line  between  Pulaski  and 
Wythe  Counties,  Va.  He  was 
commissioned  a  Lieutenant  in 
one  of  the  Fincastle  Companies 
in  1774.  He  died  in  1828  at  the 
age  of  nearly  ninety-four  years. 

Prominent  members  of  the 
family  are  still  resident  of  Dra- 
pers Valley.  In  1886,  John  S. 
Draper,  a  great  grandson  of 
Lieut.  John  Draper,  was  the 
owner  of  the  beautiful  estate. 
John  Draper  was  twice  married; 

his  first  wife  was  Bettie . 

After  her  return  from  captivity, 
she  bore  four  sons  and  three 


daughters,  she  died  in  1774. 
aged  42  years,  and  in  1776,  he 
married  Mrs.  Jane  Crockett, 
who  bore  him  two  daughters, 
Alice  and  Rhoda.  By  the  hrst 
marriage,  the  sons  were  George, 
James,  John  and  Silas.  The 
names  of  the  other  two  daugh- 
ters are  to  us  unknown. 

Benjamir    Logan. 

Benjamin  Logan,  born  in 
Augusta  County,  Va.,  1743,  was, 
in  1764,  a  sergeant  in  Boquets's 
Army.  In  1771,  he  moved  to  the 
Holston  Valley.  He  was  a 
Lieutenant  in  the  Point  Pleasant 
Campaign.  In  1775,  he  moved  to 
Kentucky  and  built  Logan's 
Station  or  fort  which  was  besieg- 
ed by  Indians.  Logan  went  to 
Holston  settlement  for  ammuni- 
tion, returning  on  foot  in  ten 
days.  In  1779,  he  was  second  in 
command  of  the  Bowman  expedi- 
tion. He  was  a  noted  Indian 
fighter  and  allied  himself  with 
Kentucky,  as  against  the 
Spaniards  at  New  Orleans.  He 
removed  to  Shelby  County,  Ken- 
tucky, where  he  died  in  1802. 
William  Campbell. 

William  Campbell  was  born  in 
Augusta  County,  Virginia,  in 
1745,  died  at  Rocky  Mills,  Han 
over  Co.,  Va.,  August  22,  1781. 
In  1767  he  moved  to  the  Holston 
Valley.  In  1774  he  was  appoint- 
ed Captain  of  militia  and  was  in 
Col.  Christian's  regiment  at 
Point  Pleasant.  In  September, 
1775,  he  commanded  a  company 


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at  Williamsburg,  in  Patrick 
Henry's  regiment  and  under 
General  Lewis  assisted  in  dis- 
lodging1 Governor  Dunmore  from 
Gwynn's  Island  in  July,  1776. 
In  1777  he  was  made  Lieutenant 
of  Militia  in  the  new  county  of 
Washington.  In  1779,  he  aided 
in  driving  the  Tories  from  the 
Holston  Valley.  In  1780.  he  was 
promoted  to  a  colonelcy  of  the  re- 
giment and  chosen  to  represent 
his  county  in  the  legislature. 
At  King's  Mountain  he  distin- 
guished himself  and  was  com- 
mended by  Washington,  Gates 
and  Greene.  He  was  with  Gen. 
Greene  at  Guilford  Court  House 
in  March',  1781.  He  was  made 
a  Brigadier  General  of  Militia 
and  served  under  Lafayette  in 
the  Battle  of  Jamestown,  soon 
after  which  he  died.  Lafayttee 
said  of  him  "His  services  at 
King's  Mountain  and  Guilford 
would  do  his  memory  everlasting 
honor  and  ensure  him  a  high 
rank  among  the  defenders  of 
liberty  in  the  American  Cause", 
while  Jefferson  declared  "Gen. 
Campbell's  friends  might  quietly 
rest  their  heads  on  the  pillow  of 
his  renown."  His  wife  was  a 
sister  of  Patrick  Henry. 

Arthur  Campbell. 

Arthur  Campbell,  a  cousin  of 
Gen.  Wm.  Campbell,  was  born 
in  Augusta  County,  Va.,  in  1743. 
At  fifteen  he  was  captured  by 
the  Indians  and  carried  to  Lake 
Erie.  Escaping,  he  was  employ- 


ed as  a  guide,  receiving  therefor 
one  thousand  acres  of  land  which 
he  located  near  the  present  site 
of  Louisville,  Ky.  In  1772,  he 
was  a  Justice  of  Fincastle  County, 
Va.,  and  later  a  Major  of  Militia. 
After  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleas- 
ant, 1775,  he  represented  his 
county  in  the  Virginia  Assem- 
bly. In  1776,  he  was  chosen 
County  Lieutenant  for  Washing- 
ton County,  which  office  he  held 
for  thirty  years.  He  joined 
Sevier  in  the  movement  to  estab- 
lish the  state  of  Franklin  for 
which  Patrick  Henry  removed 
him  from  office  and  the  legisla- 
ture re-instated  him  In  his 
latter  life  he  joined  bis  sons  at 
Middlesburg,  Ky.,  where  he 
died  in  1811. 

John  Campbell. 

Captain  John  Campbell,  a 
younger  brother  of  Arthur,  a 
lieutenant  at  Point  Pleasant, 
was  a  captain  at  the  Battle  of 
Long  Island  Flats  (1776)  and 
served  as  County  Clerk  of  Wash- 
ington County  from  1779  to  1815. 

Joseph    Mayse. 

Joseph  Mayse,  who  partici 
pated  in  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant,  was  from  Bath  County, 
Virginia.  In  April,  1840,  he 
died,  being  in  his  89th  year.  He 
had  served  as  a  magistrate  in  his 
district  for  nearly  fifty  years. 
He  was  a  man  of  such  remarka- 
ble memory  he  was  considered 
an  "official  record."  He  was 
twice  high  sheriff  of  Bath  Coun- 


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ty.  His  health  was  always  per- 
fect and  he  boasted  he  had  never 
taken  a  dose  of  medicine. 

Gen.  Andrew   Moore. 

Andrew  Moore,  a  lawyer  by 
profession,  was  born  in  Connis- 
cello,  Augusta,  now  Rockbridge, 
County,  Va.  In  1774,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  Bar.  In  October 
of  that  year  he  was  with  Andrew 
Lewis's  Army  at  Point  Pleasant. 
In  1776,  as  a  Lieutenant  in  the 
patriot  army,  he  participated  at 
Saratoga,  where  he  was  promoted 
to  a  captaincy  and  served  there- 
after three  years.  The  Virginia 
Legislature  made  him  brigadier 
general  of  militia  and  in  1808 
major  general. 

Gen.  Moore  had  the  distinction 
of  being  the  only  man  west  of 
the  Blue  Ridge,  prior  to  the  civil 
war,  who  ever  represented  Vir- 
ginia in  the  Senate  of  the  United 
States;  which  was  during  the  ad- 
ministration of  President  Jeffer- 
son. He  was  a  member  of  the 
Virginia  Assembly  from  1781  to 
1789  and  again  from  1798  to  1800. 
In  1788,  he  was  a  delegate  to  the 
convention  which  ratified  the 
United  States  Constitution.  He 
was  a  member  of  Congress  from 
Virginia  during  the  entire  ad- 
ministration of  President  Wash- 
ington. In  1800,  he  was  elected 
to  the  United  States  Senate, 
where  he  served  three  years. 
In  1810,  President  Jefferson  ap- 
pointed him  United  States  Mar- 
shall for  the  state  of  Virginia, 


which  office  he  was  filling  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  His  son, 
Samuel  Moore,  represented  Vir- 
ginia in  the  Legislature  and  in 
Congress, — a  member  of  the 
Virginia  Constitutional  Conven- 
tion 1829.  In  1861,  Samuel 
Moore  opposed  the  secession 
of  Virginia,  but,  going  with  his 
state,  he  served  in  the  Confede 
rate  Army.  The  family  have 
always  been  distinguished. 

George  NathewS, 

George  Mathews  was  born  in 
Augusta  County,  Virginia,  in 
1739,  and  died  August  30,  1812. 
At  twenty-two  years  of  age  he 
led  a  volunteer  company  against 
the  Indians.  He  was  in  com- 
mand of  a  company  of  Augusta 
troops  at  Point  Pleasant,  Oct. 
10,  1774,  and  participated  with 
the  patriot  army  throughout  the 
Revolution.  He  was  engaged  at 
Brandywine.  At  Germantown 
he  received  nine  bayonet  wounds, 
was  captured  with  his  whole  reg- 
iment and  confined  in  a  prison 
ship  at  New  York  until  Decem- 
ber, 1781.  He  then  joined  Gen. 
Nathaniel  Greene's  army  in  com- 
mand of  the  Third  Virginia  Reg- 
iment. In  1785,  he  removed  with 
his  family  to  Georgia  and  settled 
in  Oglethorpe  County.  In  1781- 
1791  he  represented  Georgia  in 
Congress;  was  Governor  of 
Georgia,  1793-6.  He  was  briga- 
dier general  of  Georgia.  In  1811, 
he  was  authorized  by  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  to  take 


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possession  of  West  Flordia  and 
captured  Amelia  Island.  His 
son,  George,  became  a  Supreme 
Judge  of  Louisiana.  He  admit- 
ted no  superiors  but  Washington. 
He  was  short,  stout,  erect,  fea- 
tures bluff,  hair  red,  complexion- 
florid.  He  died  when  on  a  visit 
to  Washington  and  is  buried  in 
St.  Paul's  churchyard.  His 
four  children,  were  Mrs. 
Andrew  Barrv,  of  Staunton,  Va., 
Mrs.  Gen.  Samuel  Blackburn, 
and  Mrs.  Isaac  Telfair,  of  Staun- 
ton, and  one  son,  Judge  George 
Mathews,  above  mentione'd.  He 
was  three  times  married,  (1)  to 
Miss  Amelia  Paul,  (2)  to  Mrs 
Margaret  Reed,  of  Staunton,  and 
(3)  to  Mrs.  Flowers,  of  Missis- 
sippi. He  was  divorced  from 
his  second  wife. 

Sampson  Mathews* 
Sampson  Mathews,  Commis- 
sary of  Col.  Charles  Lewis's 
Regiment,  was  called  "Master 
Drover  of  the  Cattle."  In  1756, 
Deputy  Sheriff  Sampson 
Mathews  assumed  the  functions 
of  Chancellor  of  Augusta  County. 
In  1764,  he  was  appointed  a 
Justice  of  the  Peace  for  Augusta. 
In  1776,  with  Alexander  St. 
Clair,  he  was  appointed  by  the 
state  of  Virginia  as  trustee  "to 
erect  at  public  expense  and  su- 
perintend a  manufactory  at  such 
place  as  they  may  think  proper 
for  the  manufacture  of  sail  duck,' 
this  preparatory  for  equipment 
of  a  Virginia  fleet  for  Revolution- 


ary service.  He  became  Col. 
Sampson  Mathews  of  the  Revo- 
lution. In  1781,  he  commanded 
the  regiment  that  repelled  Ar- 
nold's invasion  of  Virginia.  He 
was  one  of  a  committee  to  draft 
instructions  for  the  members  of 
the  Virginia  Convention  at  Rich- 
mond, Feb.  22,  1775. 

Col.  Joseph  Crockett. 

Nothing  can  be  truer  than  that 
God  provides  men  for  the  hour. 
Among  the  one  hundred  men 
who  participated  in  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant,  and  went  on  to 
become  settlers  of  Kentucky, 
that  state  so  open  to  the  prey  of 
the  Indians  that  its  first  three 
years  saw  more  people  slaughter- 
ed by  Indians  than  that  state  had 
white  population  at  the  end  of 
that  time,  had  among  its  other 
emigrants  who  were  in  the  Battle 
of  Point  Pleasant,  Col.  Joseph 
Crockett,  for  a  sketch  of  whose 
life  we  are  indebted  to  his  illus- 
trious grandson,  Col.  Bennett  H. 
Young,  of  Louisville,  Ky.  It  is 
as  follows : 

"My  great  grandfather,  Col. 
Joseph  Crockett,  was  born  in 
Albermarle,  and  was  one  of  the 
men  who  marched  with  Andrew 
Lewis,  with  Charles  Lewis,  and 
with  William  Russell,  and  was 
engaged  in  the  conflict  at  Point 
Pleasant.  He  was  then  a  young 
man. 

"He  returned  shortly  after 
the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  and 
remained  for  several  months  as 


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First  Lieutenant  in  a  company  of 
Colonial  Militia  that  was  station- 
ed at  Point  Pleasant.  When  the 
fires  of  the  Revolutionary  War 
were  kindled,  and  it  was  neces- 
sary for  every  man  to  go  to  the 
front  to  resists  British  invasions, 
the  Indians  were  to  be  left  a  lit- 
tle while  to  themselves.  Vir- 
ginia and  North  Carolina  were 
then  sending  their  pioneers  to 
make  the  settlements  of  Ken- 
tucky which  were,  under  God's 
providence  and  direction,  one  of 
the  chief  agencies  in  the  success 
of  the  colonies  in  their  great 
struggle  against  the  mother 
country.  My  ancestor  organized 
a  company  and  marched  to  the 
front.  He  was  successively  a- 
Captain,  Major  and  Lieutenant- 
Colonel.  He  was  a  Major  in 
Morgan's  riflemen,  and  recruit- 
ed two  companies  for  that  cele- 
brated organization.  He  was  a 
Lieutenant  at  White  Marsh,  was 
a  Captain  when  Burgoyne  sur- 
rendered, was  engaged  in  all  the 
battles  previous  to  that  great 
event.  He  was  at  Princeton 
and  Trenton,  and  Valley  Forge 
and  Red  Bank,  and  in  1779,  he 
raised  a  regiment  known  as  the 
Crockett  Regiment,  which  was 
sent  west  to  assist  George  Rod- 
gers  Clark  in  his  war  with  the 
Indians,  and  was  with  that  dis- 
tinguished soldier,  second  in 
command,  in  all  the  skirmishes 
and  battles  with  the  northwest- 
ern Indians  on  the  Ohio  and 


Miami  Rivers,  and  helped  to  de- 
stroy Chillicothe,  and  the  Indian 
towns*  on  the  Wabash,  and 
throughout  the  northwest,  and 
in  these  battles  stayed  the  up- 
lifted hand  of  the  cruel  and 
avenging  Indian,  who  would 
otherwise  have  wreaked  his 
cruelties  upon  the  frontier  set- 
tlements of  both  Pennsylvania 
and  Virginia  and  thus  coming  in 
the  rear  of  these  enemies,  aveng- 
ed many  of  the  wrongs  heaped 
upon  the  Virginia,  Pennsylvania 
and  Kentucky  settlements." 

James  Robertson. 

James  Robertson,  (by  some 
authors  written  Robinson) ,  with 
Val.  Sevier,  discovered  the  In- 
dians before  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant.  He  was  born  i  n 
Brunswick  County,  Va.,  1742, 
died  in  Chickasaw  County, 
Tenn.,  Sept.  1,  1814.  He  was 
the  personal  friend  of  Daniel 
Boone.  He  did  more  to  consum- 
mate a  peace  between  the  In- 
dians and  whites  than  any  man 
in  Tennessee,  when  he  became 
the  founder  of  Nashville,  where 
he  withstood,  with  a  handful  of 
men,  a  siege  of  one  thousand  In- 
dians. Flattering  offers  were 
made  him  by  the  Spanish  gov- 
ernment to  cut  the  territory  of 
Tennessee  loose  from  the  gov- 
ernment, and,  with  Watauga  and 
Kentucky,  establish  an  indepen- 
dent country  which  he  indignant- 
ly declined.  In  1790,  he  was  ap- 
pointed a  brigadier  general  by 


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Washington.  He  shared  with 
Sevier  the  honors  and  affections 
of  Tennessee. 

John  Smith. 

Ensign  John  Smith,  of  the 
battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  left 
sons,  Abraham,  of  Rockingham 
Co.,  Joseph  and  Silas  H.  of 
Augusta  Co.,  and  daughter  Nan- 
cy, who  married  Wm.  Crawford, 
His  family  have  been  distin- 
guished. 

Benjamin  Harrison. 

Benjamin  Harrison  command- 
ed a  company  at  Point  Pleasant 
In  July,  1775,  he  was  appoi  d 
Captain  of  a  company  of  Minute 
Men.  In  1778,  he  was  appointed 
Lieutenant  Colonel  of  Militia  for 
Rockingham  County.  He  was  a 
native  af  Loudon  County,  Vir- 
ginia. He  was  the  founder  of 
Harrisonburg,  Va.  He  died  in 
1819. 

Hugh  and  James  Allen. 

Hugh  Allen  was  a  Lieutenant 
in  Col.  Charles  Lewis's  Regi- 
ment at  Point  Pleasant,  where 
he  lost  his  life  and  was  buried 
beside  Col.  Lewis.  His  three 
sons,  John,  William  and  Hugh, 
all  settled  in  Kentucky.  His 
brother,  James  Allen,  who  lived 
eight  miles  from  Staunton,  was 
Captain  of  Militia  in  1756  and 
was  in  the  battle  of  Point  Pleas- 
ant, and  witnessed  the  death  of 
his  brother.  He  died  in  1810, 
aged  ninety-four  years  and  was 
an  elder  in  the  Augusta  Stone 
Church  for  sixty-four  years. 


Judge  Samuel  McDowell. 

Judge  Samuel  McDowell  who, 
as  Captain  McDowell,  command- 
ed a  company  of  Augusta  troops 
at  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant, 
was  a  native  of  Rockbridge  Coun- 
ty, Va.  He  married  Mary  Me- 
Clung,  and,  with  his  seven  sons 
and  two  daughters,  in  1784,  emi- 
grated to  Danville,  Ky.  He  was 
one  of  the  first  Kentucky  Court 
and  was  a  member  of  the  conven- 
tion that  framed  for  Kentucky 
the  first  Constitution.  He  pre- 
sided over  nine  political  conven- 
tions which  convened  in  Dan- 
ville from  1784  to  1790. 

In  1776,  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Virginia  House  of  Burgesses, 
representing  Rockbridge  Coun- 
ty. As  Col.  McDowell,  he  com- 
manded a  Rockbridge  Company 
during  the  Revolution.  On 
April  20,  1781,  he  wrote  the  Gov- 
ernor of  Virginia,  when  a  draft 
had  been  ordered  from  his  coun- 
ty for  April  26th,  that  if  the  men 
were  drawn  the  county  would  be 
ruined,  as  two  thirds  of  the  men 
had  been  engaged  in  the  servi- 
ces all  the  time  and  there  were 
no  new  ones  to  put  in  the 
crops,  and  that  he  had  marched 
with  200  men  to  join  Gen. 
Greene  before  the  battle  of 
Guilford  Court  House. 

John  Sevier. 

John  Sevier,  born  in  Rocking- 
ham Co.,  Va.,  Sep.  22,  1745,  died 
near  Fort  Decatur,  Ga.,  Sept. 
24,  1815,  was  educated  at  Fred- 


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ericksburg,  Va.,  married  at  17 
years  of  age  and  became  the 
the  founder  of  New  Market  on 
the  Shenandoah.  In  1772,  he 
was  appointed  Captain  of  the 
Virginia  line  and  moved  to  Wat- 
auga.  In  the  Dunmore  War,  he 
resumed  his  rank  in  the  "Virginia 
line  and  participated  in  the  Bat- 
tle of  Point  Pleasant.  When 
what  is  now  Tennessee  was  or- 
ganized into  Washington  Dis- 
trict, North  Carolina,  John 
Sevier  was  chosen  a  delegate  to 
the  legislature.  In  1777,  he 
again  represented  Watauga  and 
procured  for  his  state,  courts  and 
rights  of  extension.  He  was  ap- 
pointed clerk  of  the  court  and 
district  judge  and,  with  his 
friend,  James  Robertson,  was  in 
control  of  the  judicial  and  admin- 
istrative functions  of  the  settle- 
ment. He  was  elected  colonel 
and  enlisted  without  exception 
every  able  bodied  man  between 
the  ages  of  16  and  50.  With  Col. 
Isaac  Shelby  he  planned  the  bat- 
tle of  King's  Mountain.  He 
continued  to  command  the  forces 
against  the  Indians.  When  the 
new  state,  Franklin,  afterwards 
Tennessee,  was  organized,  he 
took  the  oath  of  Governor  March 
1,  1785.  When  the  new  state  be- 
came a  part  of  the  Union,  he  was 
the  first  representative  to  Con- 
gress from  the  valley  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi, 1789-1790,  and  in  1796, ' 
when  Tennessee  became  a  state, 
he  was  elected  its  first  Governor 


which  office  he  filled  for  three 
years.  He  three  times  repre- 
sented Tennessee  as  a  state  in 
Congress.  He  was  in  the  ac- 
tice  service  of  his  country  from 
the  age  of  17  years  to  70.  As 
long  as  he  lived  he  was  the  real 
seat  of  power  in  Tennessee-  A 
monument  in  Nashville  attests 
to  his  memory  and  Sevier  Coun- 
ty in  Tennessee  commemorates 
his  fame. 

Valentine  Sevier. 

Valentine  Sevier,  who  was  a 
seargent  in  Evan  Shelby's  com- 
pany and  a  younger  brother  of 
Gen.  John  Sevier,  in  1779,  was  a 
Captain  in  the  Chickamauga 
Campaign  and  led  a  company 
against  the  British  in  North  Car- 
olina, 1780,  which  culminated  in 
the  Battle  of  King's  Mountain. 
He  rose  to  the  rank  of  Militia 
Colonel  and  died  at  Clarksville, 
Tenn.,  in  1800. 

James  Harrod. 

James  Harrod  who  had  been 
in  Kentucky  in  the  spring  and 
summer  of  1774,  was  with  Col. 
Charles  Lewis.  He  built  the 
first  cabin  in  Kentucky.  He  be- 
came Col.  Harrod  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, e  was  a  member  of  the 
first  Kentucky  Legislature.  He 
was  an  able  assistant  of  Geo. 
Rodgers  Clark  in  securing  am- 
munition. He  declined  to  accept 
the  appointment  of  Major  of  the 
first  Regimental  Militia  of  Ken- 
tucky. Harrodsburg  Kentucky, 
is  named  for  him.  A  man  named 


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Bridges  with   whom   he  had  had 

litigation     murdered    him, — the 

date  is  thought  to  be  July,    1793. 

William  Russell. 

William  Russell  was  but  fif- 
teen years  of  age  when  par- 
ticipating in  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant.  During  the 
Revolution  he  rose  to  the  Rank 
of  Colonel.  He  was  a  Lieutenant 
at  the  Battle  of  King's  Mountain 
and  Guilford  Court  House.  Af- 
ter the  Revolution  he  settled  in 
Fayette  County,  Kentucky.  He 
was  appointed  to  command  a 
regiment  in  the  regular  army. 
In  1792,  he  represented  Fayette 
County  in  the  Kentucky  legisla- 
ture, which  was  repeated  a  dozen 
times  until  1825,  when  he  con- 
tracted a  cold  at  a  public  meet- 
ing where  he  was  called  to  pre- 
side, which  resulted  in  his  death. 
James  Montgomery. 

Captain  James  Montgomery, 
who  was  in  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant, ,  settled  in  Kentucky, 
as  did  James  Knox,  who  was  in 
Isaac  Kite's  Company.  Others 
of  Isaac  Kite's  Company  who 
settled  in  Kentucky  were  James 
McCullosh,  John  Shelp,  William 
Field,  Thomas  Glenn,  David  Wil- 
liams, James  Brown,  John  Cowan, 
John  Wilson,  Abraham  Chapline 
and  John  Clark. 

John  Crawford. 

John  Crawford  represented 
Montgomery  County,  Kentucky, 
in  the  Legislature  in  1812. 


William  Christian. 

While  Col.  Wm.  Christian  was 
not  an  actual  participant  in  the 
Battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  he, 
witti  his  three  hundred  volun- 
teers troops,  not  arriving  until 
11  p.  m.,  the  night  of  the  battle, 
yet  they  did  noble  services  to  the 
bleeding  army  and  the  valiant 
dead.  He  was  a  native  of  Augus- 
ta County  and  educated  atStaun- 
ton.  He  participated  in  the 
Braddock  campaign.  He  mar- 
ried a  sister  of  Patrick  Henry 
and  settled  in  Bottetourt  County. 
In  1775,  he  settled  in  Kentucky 
and  Christian  County  is  named 
in  his  honor.  In  April,  1776,  he 
was  killed  by  a  party  of  Indians 
who  had  stolen  his  horses  and  in 
whom,  with  a  party  of  friends, 
he  was  in  pursuit. 

George  Slaughter. 

Col.  George  Slaughter,  a  son- 
in-law  of  Col.  Field,  after  the 
Battle,  settled  in  Kentucky  and 
was  one  of  eight  delegates  to 
Congress  out  of  the  city  of 
Louisville. 

James  Trimble. 

James  Trimble,  a  participant 
in  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant, 
aged  then  but  eighteen  years, 
had  in  1770,  been  a  prisoner  of 
the  Indians.  In  1780  or  81,  he 
emigrated  to  Woodford,  Ky.,  be- 
ing one  of  the  earliest  settlers. 
In  1804,  he  died  in  Kentucky, 
having  made  preparations  to 
move  to  Hillsborough,  Ohio, 
where  his  family  removed  after 


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his  death.  The  Trimbles  be- 
came eminent.  Allen  Trimble 
became  Governor  of  Ohio.  Wm. 
A.  Trimble  was  a  Major  in  the 
War  of  1812,  and  in  1819  a  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel  in  the  Regular 
Army  and  a  United  States  Sena- 
tor from  Ohio. 

John  Dickenson. 

Captain  John  Dickenson,  who 
commanded  one  of  Col.  Charles 
Lewis  Companies  of  Augusta 
County  troops  and  who  was 
wounded  during  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant,  was  left  with 
Col.  Fleming  at  the  fort  when 
Andrew  Lewis,  with  his  troops, 
advanced  into  ^Obio.  In  1785,  he 
surveyed  502  acres  of  land  at  the 
mouth  of  Campbell's  Creek  on 
the  Kanawha  River.  In  1777,  he 
commanded,  as  a  Colonel  with 
Major  Samuel  McDowell,  the 
Bottetourt  troops,  as  well  as 
troops,  from  Augusta  County, 
and  marched  to  the  defense  of 
the  fort  at  Point  Pleasant,  ac- 
companied by  Capt.  Hall's  com- 
pany of  Rockbridge  volunteers, 
numbering  in  all  about  700  men, 
and  he  witnessed  the  murder  of 
Cornstalk,  which  with  the  officers 
in  command  he  tried  to  prevent. 
In  1791,  when  Bath  County  was 
organized,  he  was  appointed  one 
of  the  first  gentlemen  justices  of 
that  county  which  honor  he  de- 
clined. He  died  in  1799,  owning 
large  tracts  of  land  in  Bath, 
Greenbrier  and  Kanawha  Coun- 
ties, besides  large  holdings  in 


Kentucky.  He  left  sons,  Adam 
and  John  and  daughters  Nancy, 
married  Joseph  Kinkcaid,  Mary, 
married  Samuel  Shrewsbury  and 
Jane,  who  was  the  wife  of  Char- 
les Lewis  son  of  Col.  Charles 
Lewis,  some  of  the  descendants 
of  the  latter  still  being  residents 
of  this  county. 

Anthony  Bledsoe. 

Anthony  Bledsoe,  born  in  Cnl- 
pepper  County,  in  1733,  in  1774, 
moved  to  the  neighborhood  of  the 
Shelby's.  He  was  a  magistrate 
of  Botetourt,  Fincastle  and 
Washington  Counties,  and  a 
member  of  the  Virginia  Assem- 
bly from  Washington  County, 
1777-78.  He  moved  to  Bledsoe's 
Lick,  North  Carolina,  and  repre- 
sented his  district  in  the  assem- 
bly of  his  state  from  1785,  to 
1788,  when  he  was  killed  by  In- 
dians. He  was  in  charge  of  the 
commissary  under  Col.  Christain 
at  Point  Pleasant  with  the  rank 
of  major.  He  commanded  the 
forces  at  Long  Island  until  July, 
1777,  and  in  1779,  went  out 
against  the  Chickamaugas  and 
did  not  participate  in  the  Battle 
of  King's  Mountain  because  he 
felt  it  was  his  duty  to  remain  at 
home  and  protect  the  frontier. 
William  Cocke. 

Captain  William  Cocke,  of  the 
Battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  served 
in  the  legislature  of  four  states 
and  in  the  federal  senate,  as  well 
as  was  prominent  in  his  military 
career.  He  was  born  in  1748,  in 


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Amelia  County,  Virginia  He 
studied  law  and  removed  to  the 
Holston  Valley.  He  was  a 
brilliant  orator  and  popular. 
After  the  Dunmore  War  he  settl- 
ed for  a  while  in  Boonesborough, 
Ky.,  but  returned  to  the  Watau^a 
and  participated  in  the  Chero- 
kee Campaign.  In  1777,  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Virginia  Assem- 
bly. In  1780  he  led  a  company 
at  King's  Mountain.  He  was 
made  a  Brigadier  General  of 
Tennessee  and,  in  1796,  one  of 
the  federal  senators  and  was  re- 
elected  in  1799. 

In  1809  he  was  elected  a  circuit 
judge  of  Tennessee.  In  1812  he 
removed  to  Columbus,  Miss.,  and 
enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  war 
of  that  year  and  soon  rose  to  dis- 
tinction. He  died  in  1828  at 
Columbus,  Miss. 

John  Sawyer. 

Col.  John  Sawyer,  born  in  Vir- 
ginia 1745,  died  in  Knox  County, 
Tenn.,  in  1831,  and  was  with  the 
Shelby's  at  Point  Pleasant.  In 
1776,  he  served  in  the  Cherokee 
Campaign  and  in  1779  in  the 
Chickamauga  expedition  and 
commanded  under  Gen.  Shelby  a 
company  at  King's  Mountain. 
He  was  a  Major,  next  a  Colonel 
and  was  a  representative  to  the 
state  assembly,  of  Tennessee. 
Joseph  Hughey. 

Joseph    Hughey,    of  Shelby's 
Company,  was    killed    when  at 
tempting  to    bring    the  news  of 
the  Indians'    presence    to  camp 


before  the  battle.  James  Moon- 
ey,  who  accompanied  him,  suc- 
ceeded in  reaching  the  camp, 
but  was  killed  during  the  battle. 
Philip  Love. 

Capt.  Philip  Love  later  served 
as    a      Colonel     in     Christian's 
Cherokee  Campaign  in  1776. 
Ellis  Hughes. 

Ellis  Hughes,  who  is  thought 
to  have  been  the  last  survivor  of  . 
the  patriots  of  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant,  went,  after  Wayne's 
treaty,  to  Ohio  and  died  March, 
1845,  at  Utica,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
was  highly  respected.  He  was 
buried  with  military  honors. 

Reared  in  his  native  state  Vir- 
ginia, nurtured  amid  the  scenes 
of  forest  savagery,  wherein  by 
fndian  depredations  he  lost  his 
father  and  sweetheart,  it  is  not 
surprising  that  he  pursued  the 
dusky  foe  until  he  had  disappear- 
ed from  Virginia  and  from  his 
adopted  home,  Ohio. 

John  Steele. 

John  Steele,  who  was  wounded 
during  the  engagement  at  Point 
Pleasant,  was  born  in  Augusta 
County,  Virginia,  about  1755. 
He  was  an  officer  in  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant  and  served 
throughout  the  Revolution.  He 
was  again  wounded  at  the  Battle 
of  Germantown.  He  was  for 
many  years  a  member  of  the  Ex- 
ecutive Council  of  Virginia  and 
in  the  administration  of  Presi- 
dent John  Adams,  was  a  commis- 
sioner to  treat  with  the  Cherokee 


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Indians.  From  1798  to  1801  he 
was  Secretary  of  the  Mississippi 
Territory. 

Azariah  Davis. 

A/.ariah  Davis,  of  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant,  was  a  member  of 
Harrod's  Company.  He  was 
one  of  themembers  of  the  First 
Kentucky  Legislature  and  is 
mentioned  (1775)  among  the 
first  settlers  of  Harrodsburg, 
Kentucky. 

John  Todd. 

John  Todd  became  one  of  the 
founders  of  Louisville,  Ky.  He 
was  with  Col.  George  Slaughter. 

Chas.  E.    Cameron. 

Chas.  E.  Cameron  and  bis 
brothers,  Hugh  and  George  Cam- 
eron, were  with  the  Virginia 
troops  at  Point  Pleasant  in  which 
engagement  George  Cameron 
was  killed.  They  were  brothers- 
in-law  of  Col.  Charles  Lewis, 
who  was  killed  in  that  battle, 
whose  wife  Sarah  Murry,  was 
their  half  sister.  George  Cam- 
eron resembled  in  person  and 
being  his  distinguished  father, 
Dr.  John  Cameron,  of  Staunton, 
who  had  emigrated  from  Scot- 
land. Charles  Cameron  served 
throughout  the  Revolution,  as  a 
Lieutenant  and  was  with  the 
Virginia  troops  at  the  surrender 
of  Yorktown  In  1790  he  was 
one  of  the  gentlemen  justices  of 
Augusta  County.  On  December 
14,  1790,  he  received  a  land  grant 


in  Bath  County,  Va.,  where  he 
located,  about  four  miles  from 
Warm  Springs.  He  accumulat- 
ed large  land  interests.  His 
residence  of  stone  was  magnifi- 
cent for  its  time  and  overlooked 
the  Jackson  River.  Major  Cam- 
eron became  the  first  Clerk  of 
Bath  County,  serving  both  courts 
for  a  number  of  years.  After 
the  Revolution,  he  became  Colo- 
nel of  Militia.  As  a  personal 
friend  of  Gen.  Lafayette,  he  was 
presented  by  him  with  a  beauti- 
ful cane  which  he  used  and  prized 
until  his  death,  which  occurred 
June  14,  1829.  He  was  survived 
by  his  widow,  Mrs.  Rachel  Prim- 
rose Warwick  and  one  son,  An- 
drew Warwick  Cameron. 
Silas  Marian 

Silas  Harlan,  of  Berkeley 
County,  Virginia,  was  in  Captain 
Harrod's  Company  and,  after  the 
Battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  emi- 
grated to  Kentucky.  In  1779, 
he  commanded  a  company  of 
spies  under  Gen.  Geo.  Rodgers 
Clark  in  the  Illinois  campaign. 
Gen.  Clark  pronounced  him  one 
of  the  bravest  and  most  accom- 
plished soldiers  who  ever  fought 
by  his  side.  He  was  a  Major  at 
the  Battle  of  Blue  Licks,  where 
he  fell.  He  was  but  thirty  years 
of  age  and  unmarried. 
Jacob  Warwick 

Jacob  Warwick,  of  Bath  Coun- 
ty, Virginia,  on  the  morning  of 
the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  had 
gone  out  early  to  kill  beeves  and 


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prepare  rations  for  the  army. 
He  and  the  men  who  accompa- 
nied him  hearing  the  first  shots 
of  battle,  thought  Dunmore  had 
arrived  and  that  the  guns  were  a 
salute.  Later  they  thought  it  a 
practice  exercise,  but,  determin- 
ing1 to  see  for  themselves,  they 
joined  the  army  in  time  to  help 
materially  in  turning  the  tide  of 
victory. 

Jacob  Warwick  is  buried  be- 
side his  wife  at  Clover  Lick  Cem- 
etery in  Barth  County,  Va., 
where  he  died  Jan.,  1826,  in  his 
83rd  year.  He  died  at  the  home 
of  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Major 
Charles  Cameron,  on  Jackson 
River. 

The  Van  Bibbers. 

The  brothers,  John,  Isaac  and 
Peter  Van  Bibber,  and  Jesse, 
son  of  Peter,  were  participants 
in  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant. 
Mrs.  Miriam  Donley,  a  Van  Bib- 
ber descendant,  writing  for  the 
July,  1903,  West  Virginia  His- 
torical Magazine,  says  "Isaac  had 
come  from  the  Carolinas  on  a 
visit  to  his  brother  in  Bottetourt 
County,  when  the  call  to  arms 
resounded  through  the  land. 
Although  a  Baptist  minister,  he 
could  and  would  not  resist,  as 
hearts  were  that  day  attuned  to 
martial  music,  and  he  responded 
to  its  call.  He  fell  mortally 
wounded  besides  Colonel  Charles 
Lewis.  Peter  fought  with  such 
bravery  he  was  promoted  and 
complimented  on  the  battle  field. 


John  Van  Bibber  was  written  of 
by  all  historians  as  Captain  and 
family  notes  say  he  was  made 
Captain  after  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant  and  Commissary  of 
Fort  Randolph.  The  Van  Bib- 
bers continued  to  defend  the  bor- 
der although  Isaac,  the  son  of 
Isaac,  fell  at  Point  Pleasant, 
while  Jacob  and  Mathias  Van 
Bibber  died  twenty  years  later. 
As  late  as  1843,  Captain  Jesse 
Van  Bibber  was  still  residing  on 
Thirteen  Mile  Creek  in  Mason 
County,  now  West  Virginia. 
He  with  his  brother,  John  Van 
Bibber  \\ere  among  the  earliest 
settlers  of  that  County." 

Howe*  the  Historian,  who  in 
writing  the  History  of  Virginia 
in  1836,  said  "There  is  living 
upon  Thirteen  Mile  Creek,  Mr. 
Jesse  Van  Bibber,  and  aged 
pioneer  in  this  county.  His  life, 
like  his  own  mountain  stream 
therein,  was  rough  and  turbulent 
at  its  commencement;  but  as  it 
nears  its  close,  calm  and  peace- 
ful, beautifully  reflecting  the 
Christian  virtues." 

Leonard  Cooper. 

Captain  Leonard  Cooper,  an- 
other Revolutionary  soldier  who 
is  buried  in  Mason  County,  West 
Virginia,,  participated  in  the 
Battle  of  Point  Pleasant.  Prior 
to  the  Revolution,  he  held  a  com 
mission  in  the  Colonial  army  of 
Maryland.  Learning  of  Dun- 
more's  War,  he  hastened  to 
Staunton,  Virginia,  and  entered 


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the  Army  of  General  Lewis.  He 
remained  in  the  service  until  the 
close  of  -the  Revolutionary  strug- 
gle. In  1789  Major  Cooper  re- 
moved with  his  family  from 
Maryland  to  Fort  Randolph, 
later  erecting  a  Block  House, 
known  as  Cooper's  Block  House, 
(where  Mr.  George  W.  Pullin 
now  resides)  in  Cooper  District, 
nine  miles  from  the  mouth  of  the 
Kanawha,  on  the  upper  side.  He 
there  removed  with  his  family. 

In  1804,  when  the  new  County 
of  Mason  was  organized,  Major 
Cooper  was  appointed  a  justice 
of  the  peace  in  which  capacity 
he  served  until  his  death  which 
occurred  in  1808.  His  remains 
were  buried  near  his  home.  His 
son,  Leonard,  born  in  1791,  was 
the  first  white  child  born  at 
Point  Pleasant.  Another  of 
Leonard  Cooper's  children,  Mary 
became  the  wifeof  William  Trot- 
ter, son  of  Richard  Trotter,  kill- 
ed in  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleas- 
ant and  Anne  (Trotter)  Bailey, 
who,  going  from  Cooper's  Block 
House,  by  canoe  to  Gallipolis, 
where  in  1800,  their  marriage 
ceremony  was  performed.  This 
is  said  to  have  been  the  first 
Virginia  marriage  performed  in. 
the  French  Settlement. 

William    Arbuckle. 

Captain  William  Arbuckle,  of 
Rockingham  County,  Virginia, 
deserves  to  rank  with  Daniel 
Boone  and  Simon  Kenton  in  the 
valor  displayed  in  wresting  from 


savagery  the  vast  domain  in 
which  his  expedition  laid  He 
was  not  only  with  General  An- 
drew Lewis  at  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant,  where  as  a  pilot  (having 
first  visited  the  mouth  of  the 
Kanawha  in  1764)  he  safely  con- 
ducted that  wing  of  the  army, 
but  when  Geo.  Rodgers  Clark 
was  organizing  his  expedition 
against  the  French  Forts  in 
Illinois  from  which  the  Indians 
were  known  to  receive  supplies, 
he  (Capt.  Arbuckle)  tendered 
his  services  which  were  accepted 
and  he  acquitted  himself  with 
credit  in  that  ever  memorable 
campaign.  He  defended  the  fort 
at  Point  Pleasant.  He  married 
Catherine  Madison,  widow  of 
Capt.  Robert  McClannahan,  who 
fell  in  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleas- 
ant. He  remained  in  command 
of  Fort  Randolph  until  1795  when 
Wayne  made  his  treaty  with  the 
Indians,  when  he  bought  land  and 
located  on  the  Kanawha  four 
miles  below  the  present  town  of 
Buffalo,  where  he  and  his  wife 
passed  a  peaceful  and  honored 
old  age.  Among  their  descend- 
ants yet  on  the  Kanawha  are  the 
families  of  Arbuckle,  Craig, 
Alexander,  Miller  and  others. 
William  Arbuckle  had  two  child- 
ren born  within  the  fort  at  Point 
Pleasant.  He  and  his  wife  both 
are  buried  in  the  church  yard  at 
the  Arbuckle  Church  in  Mason 
County  West  Virginia,  Simple 
stones  are  thus  engraved: 


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"Wm     Arbuckle,    born     March, 
1752,  Died  March  21,  1836, 

Aged  84  years." 

"Kitty  Arbuckle,  Died  July  18, 
1818,  Aged  64  years." 

John  Young. 

John  Young-  became  a  settler 
in  the  present  Kanawha  Count}', 
and,  in  the  military  organization 
of  the  County,  was  a  lieutenant 
of  militia.  He  left  a  son,  Jos. 
Young,  from  whom  descend 
many  residents  of  the  valley. 

John  Henderson. 

John  Henderson,  about  1740, 
with  his  brothers  James  and 
Samuel,  came  to  Augusta  County, 
Virginia,  from  Scotland. 

Descending  from  James,  John 
his  second  son,  was  born  1740, 
and  died  March  24,  1787.  In  1765 
he  married  Ann  Givens,  sister  to 
the  wife  of  Gen.  Andrew  Lewis, 
and  buying  300  acres  of  land,  he 
settled  in  Green  brier.  In  1786, 
he  was  granted  by  Governor 
Randolph  350  acres,  now  in 
Greenbrier  County,  and  1400 
acres  on  the  South  Side  of  the 
Kanawha  in  what  is  now  Clen- 
.  dennin  and  Arbuckle  Districts, 
Mason  County,  West  Vriginia. 

In  Greenbrier  County,  he  be- 
came a  Lieutenant  of  Militia  and 
ranked  as  such  in  Captain  Her- 
bert's Company  at  Point  Pleas- 
ant. Later  he  was  Captain  of 
the  Greenbrier  Militia  and  later 
was  a  Corporal  in  Capt.  Gregory's 
Company  in  Daniel  Morgan's 


Virginia  Regiment,  serving  un- 
til April,  1779.  In  1780,  be  was 
elected  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  of 
Greenbrier  County,  which  office 
he  held  in  1787,  the  time  of  his 
death.  He  was  survived  by  his 
widow  who  died  May  28,  1819, 
and  children,  Samuel,  John, 
Margaret,  James,  Jean  and 
William.  John  and  Samuel  in- 
herited the  lands  on  Kanawha, 
where  they  made  permanent 
homes.  Samuel  building  his 
cabin  home  at  the  mouth  of  Ka- 
nawha and  in  1810  burned  the 
brick  and  erected  a  commodious 
brick  house,  the  second  one  in 
the  count}',  now  occupied  by  his 
'grandaughter,  Mrs.  Ella  M. 
Henderson  Hutch  inson  and 
family. 

John  Henderson  second, 
son  of  Capt.  John  Henderson, 
was  a  man  prominent  in  the 
public  affairs  of  Mason  County, 
and  he  occupied  and  inherited 
that  part  of  the  tract  of  land  ad- 
joining his  brother  Samuel  but 
running  further  up  the  Kanawha. 

Luman  Gibbs- 

Luman  Gibbs  was  but  16  years 
of  age  when,  with  the  army  of 
General  Andrew  Lewis,  he  par- 
ticipated at  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant.  He  was  left  as  a  part 
of  the  Garrison  at  the  Fort.  He 
became  a  noted  scout  and  for 
twenty  years  he  served  in  that 
capacity,  wandering  over  the 
hills  of  the  present  County  of 
Mason.  His  weekly  route  pro- 


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ceeded  from  Fort  Randolph  up 
the  Kanawha  to  the  Mouth  of 
Eighteen  Mile  Creek,  thence 
across  to  Letart  Falls,  thence 
down  the  Ohio  to  Point  Pleasant, 
and  his  "All's  Well"  for  twenty 
years  dispelled  the  fears  of  the 
early  settlers  in  and  about  the 
tort.  The  early  settlers  knew 
the  route  as  "Gibb's  Track." 
He  married  and  located  perma- 
nently in  Mason  County,  where 
he  has  many  descendants. 

He  had  emigrated  to  Augusta 
County  Virginia  in  1755 
coming  from  New  Hampshire 
where  he  was  born.  He  engaged 
at  once  in  the  Colonial  Army  in 
that  year  with  Andrew  Lewis  in 
the  Braddock  campaign  and 
again  enlisted  in  his  command 
for  the  Point  Pleasant  Campaign. 
He  was  as  noted  for  his  sunny 
disposition  as  for  his  bravery. 
He  lived  to  a  great  old  age  and 
died  1837  and  is  buried  in  the 
Gibbs  family  burying  ground 
eight  miles  from  Point  Pleasant. 
In  the  same  grave  yard  are  buri- 
ed Revolutionary  soldiers  James 
Ball  and  Isaac  Robinson  who  too 
participated  in  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant  and  became  resi- 
dents of  Mason  County. 

George  Eastham. 

George  Eastham,  of  Far- 
quier  County,  Va.,  who  was  in 
one  of  the  companies  with  Col. 
Field  at  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant,  was  born  in  1758,  and 
hence  was  but  a  youth  when  en- 


gaged in  that  battle.  He  partici- 
pated in  many  struggles  through- 
out the  Revolution.  He  married 
(1)  Susan  Woodside,  who  bore 
him  nine  children,  among  whom 
was  Col.  Lawson  Eastham;  his 
second  wife,  Mrs.  Mary  Brown, 
widow  of  James  Brown,  bore 
him  three  children,  viz.,  Lucinda, 
Albert  G.  and  Saunders.  In 
1817,  he  moved  to  Arbuckle  dis- 
trict, Mason  County,  Virginia, 
known  as  Five  Mile  Creek,  and 
in  the  following  year  died.  His 
son,  Albert  G.  Eastham,  born  in 
1805,  father  of  a  large  family  in 
Mason  County,  died  Feb.  23, 
1890,  at  his  home  in  Arbuckle 
District  being  the  last  real  son  of 
"The  Revolution"  in  the  county 
of  Mason.  He  left  many  descen- 
dants in  that  County  who  do 
honor  to  his  name. 

John  Stuart. 

Col.  John  Stuart  was  the  son 
of  Col.  David  Stuart,  County 
Lieutenant  of  A.ugusta  County, 
when  that  county  extended  from 
the  Blue  Ridge  to  the  Mississippi, 
1755. 

John  Stuart,  son  of  Daniel  and 
Margaret  Stuart,  was  born  in 
1749,  in  Augusta  County  and 
emigrated  to  Greenbrier  in  1769 
and  built  a  house  of  hewn  logs 
two  and  a  half  stories  high, 
which  he  used  as  a  residence  and 
fort,  known  as  Fort  Union. 

When  his  cousin  Andrew 
Lewis  rested  his  army  at  Fort 
Union  and  was  ready  to  continue 


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the  march  to  Point  Pleasant,  his 
forqes  were  augmented  by  Col. 
Stuart's  and  one  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  Robert  McClan- 
naham. 

At  Point  Pleasant  Captain 
Stuart's  Company  was  one  of 
the  three  sent  up  Crooked  Creek 
in  the  flank  movement  that  suc- 
cessfully put  Cornstalk  to  rout. 

Col.  Stuart  did  not  go  on  with 
the  further  battles  of  the  Revo- 
lution, but  continued  the  defense 
of  Fort  Union  and  organized  a 
force  and  went  to  the  successful 
relief  of  Fort  Donnally  when  that 
fort  was  so  vigorously  attacked 
by  the  Indians. 

November  25,  1780,  Col.  John 
Stuart  became  clerk  of  Green- 
brier.  At  the  close  of  the  first 
deed  book  he  makes  valuable  his- 
torical notes  including  an  ac- 
count of  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant. 

Col.  Stuart  married  Agatha, 
the  widow  of  John  Frogg,  killed 
in  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant, 
she  the  daughter  of  Thomas 
Lewis,  hence  already  his  kins- 
woman. They  had  four  chil- 
dren, Margaret,  who  married 
General  Andrew  Lewis,  son  of 
Col.  Charles  Lewis;  Jane 
married  Robert  Crockett;  Char- 
les A.,  married  Elizabeth  Robin- 
son, and  Lewis,  who  married, 
Sarah,  the  second  daughter  of 
Col.  Charles  Lewis. 

Col.  Stuart  became  one  of.  the 
best  business  men  and  largest 


land  owners  of  Greenbrier 
County.  In  the  splendid  stone 
mansion  he  had  built,  he  lavishly 
entertained.  Here  were  wont 
to  meet  the  most  intelligent,  pol- 
ished and  distinguished  men, 
not  only  of  Virginia,  but  of  other 
states  and  nations,  and  his 
generosity  was  only  bounded  by 
the  demands  of  his  neighbor- 
hood, 

1788,  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Virginia  Constitutional  Conven 
tion.  In  1793,  he  was  appointed 
Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the  79th 
Regiment  of  Militia.  In  1776, 
he  and  bis  wife  each  contributed 
500  pounds  sterling  to  build  the 
old  stone  church  at  Lewisburg, 
yet  beautifully  preserved.  He 
was  a  member  of  seven  literary 
societies  including  the  American 
Philosophical  Society.  His  li- 
brary was  extensive  and  valu- 
able. He  built  in  his  own  yard 
the  first  clerk's  office  of  the 
county  which  is  still  standing. 
He  presented  the  county  the  lot 
upon  which  the  f.rst  court 
house  at  Lewisburg  was  built. 
He  died  August  23,  1823,  and  is. 
interred  in  the  old  family  bury- 
ing ground. 

Thomas  Pos*y. 

Thomas  Posey  was  born  on 
the  Potomac  River  in  Virginia 
July  9,  1750.  He  early  participa- 
ted with  the  Virginia  militia  and 
with  the  rank  of  Captain,  was 
Quartermaster  to  the  Army  of 
General  Lewis. 


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In  1775.  he  was  appointed  a 
member  of  the  Committee  of 
Safety  and  that  year  raised  a 
company  which  he  commanded 
and  assisted  Gen'  Andrew  Lewis 
in  driving  Governor  Dunmore 
from  Gwinn's  Island,  July  8, 
1776.  In  1777,  he  joined  the 
Continental  Army  at  Middle 
Brook,  N.  J.  Here  he  became 
one  of  the  distinguished  picket 
men  of  Morgan's  Riflemen,  dis- 
tinguishing himself  at  Piscato- 
way,  Bennington  Heights  and 
Stillwater.  In  1778,  he  was  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  Major,  in 
command  of  the  Morgan  Rifle- 
men. In  1778,  he  commanded 
the  llth  Virginia  Regiment,  At 
the  close  of  that  year  he  entered 
the  artillery  service  and  was  in 
charge  of  a  battery  under  Wayne 
in  the  attack  upon  Stony  Point, 
one  of  the  most  thrilling  incidents 
of  the  Revolution,  being  the  first 
field  officer  to  enter  the  enemy's 
works.  He  witnessed  the  sur- 
render at  Yorktown.  He  retir- 
ed with  the  rank  of  Brigadier 
General,  settling  at  Spottsylvania 
Court  House,  Virginia.  1793, 
he  removed  to  Kentucky,  where 
he  was  elected  Lieutenant  Gov- 
ernor and,  as  such,  President  of 
the  Senate.  Moving  to  Louisiana 
in  October,  1812,  he  was  chosen 
to  fill  a  vacancy  in  the  United 
States  Senate,  President  Har- 
rison appointed  him  Governor  of 
Indiana  Territory  which  honor 
he  declined.  He  was  agent  of 


Indian  affairs  from  1813  to  1816. 
He  died  at  Shawnee  Town,  111., 
March  19,  1818.  His  first  wife 
was  the  daughter  of  Colonel 
Sampson  Mathews,  of  Virginia; 
his  second  wife,  widow  of  Major 
Geo.  Thornton,  and  daughter  of 
John  Alexander. 

Posey    County,   Indiana,   com- 
memorates his  name  which  name 
adds    lustre    to    the    roll  of  the 
army  of  General  Lewis. 
John  Lewis* 

Major  John  Lewis,  a  nephew 
of  General  Andrew  Lewis  with 
whom  he  was  engaged  at  Point 
Pleasant,  died  in  1823,  at  his 
home  at  Sweet  Springs.  He  was 
the  son  of  Wm.  Lewis,  brother  of 
Gen.  Andrew  Lewis.  He  was 
noted  for  bis  courage,  integrity 
and  high  sense  of  honor  and  con- 
tinued in  the  service  of  the  Col- 
onies throughout  the  Revolution. 
As  a  Lieutenant  he  was  engaged 
at  Monmouth,  Saratoga,  Trenton 
and  spent  the  winter  of  1777  at 
Valley  Forge.  He  rose  to  the 
rank  of  Major,  which  rank  he 
held  at  Monmouth.  In  1783  he 
returned  to  his  Virginia  home, 
but  was  much  engaged  on  the 
frontier  until  the  close  of 
Wayne's  Campaign.  He  was 
five  feet,  ten  inches  high,  com- 
pactly built,  muscular,  strong 
and  courageous.  A  {"the  time  of 
his  death,  he  was  an  Elder  in  the 
Presbyterian  Church. 

William  Clendennin. 
-  William  Clendennin  was  a  pri- 


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vate  in  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleas- 
ant. Later  he  was  commission- 
ed Major  in  the  Kanawha  Militia. 
He  represented  Kanawha  Coun- 
ty in  the  Virginia  Assembly  in 
1796-1801-1803.  He  was  a  Col- 
lector of  Levies  1792-1793-1794. 
He  was  a  justice  of  the  peace 
and  member  of  the  first  Court  in 
the  County,  held  at  his  house  in 
1789.  In  1790,  he  settled  in 
what  is  now  Mason  County,  W. 
Va.,  In  1804,  he  carried  the 
petition  to  the  Virginia  Assem- 
bly asking  for  the  organization 
of  Mason  County  Virginia  and  in 
1805,  was  the  first  representative 
.  of  that  county. 

Major  Clendennin  had  settled 
about  1797  at  Eight  Mile,  Mason 
County.  In  1802  he  purchased  a 
part  of  the  Hugh  Mercer  tract 
and  built  the  first  log  cabin  in 
Clendennin  District,  Mason 
County,  and  many  of  his  descen- 
dants are  living  in  Mason  and  ad- 
joining counties  in  West  Vir- 
ginia and  Ohio.  By  his  son 
Charles,  whose  son  William  mar- 
ried Sophia  Neale  of  Gallipolis, 
their  son,  James  B.  Clendennin, 
is  survived  by  a  daughter,  Mrs. 
George  Wallis,  of  Apple  Grove. 
Sophia,  daughter  of  William 
Clendennin,  married  John  Miller, 
and  her  sister  Ann,  married 
Henry  Miller,  both  of  Gallipulis. 
Another  sister,  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried John  Bing  of  Gallia  County, 
Ohio,  from  whom  decended  a 
large  family.  Their  second  child, 


Martha  Young  Bing,  born  in 
Gailia  County,  Ohio,  Oct.  24, 
1805.  died  Oct.  30,  1900,  was  the 
ancestor  of  the  Filson  and  Cable 
families  of  Mason  County,  West 
Virginia. 

Archibald    Clendennin. 

Archibald  Clendennin,  brother 
of  William  and  George,  married 
Nancy  E  w  i  n  g  and  lived  on  a 
farm  a  mile  from  Lewisburg. 
The  family  were  attacked  by  In- 
dians, and  Archibald  Clendennin 
was  killed.  His  wife  was  cap 
tured  by  the  Indians,  but  made 
her  escape. 

Benjamin  Logan 
Benjamin  Logan  was  born  in 
Agusta  County,  Virginia,  in 
1752.  He  emigrated,  to  Penn- 
sylvania from  Ireland,  when  a 
child,  and  when  but  fourteen, 
emigrated  with  his  parents  from 
Pennsylvania  to  Virginia,  where 
his  father  died.  By  the  law  of 
entail  then  prevailing  in  Virginia 
he  became  the  heir  of  his  fathers 
estate,  but  he  divided  it  with 
his  mother,  brothers  and  sisters. 
He  married  tnd  settled  on  the 
Holsten  river  and  was  with  Col. 
Henry  Boquet  in  his  expedition 
against  the  Indians.  He  was  in 
the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant.  In 
1775  he  emigrated  to  Kentuckey 
with  Daniel  Boone  and  establish- 
ed Logans  Fort,  where  he  moved 
with  his  family  the  following  year. 
He  was  one  of  the  most  daring 
of  Kentucky  pioneers  and  his 
defense  and  relief  of  his  fort  is 


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one  of  the  most  thrilling  pages  in 
Kentucky  history.  His  expedi- 
tion against  the  Indians  at  Chil- 
licothe  in  which  the  Indians  were 
put  to  rout  and  their  supplies 
captured,  including  150  horses, 
was  admirably  planned  and  exe- 
cuted. In  1788  he  led  a  regi- 
ment of  600  men  against  the  In- 
dians of  the  North  West.  He 
passed  his  declining  years  in 
Shelby  County,  Kentucky,  on  bis 
extensive  farm,  dying,  Dec.,  11, 
1802.  He  was  six  feet  three 
tail,  powerfully  built  with  nerves 
and  courage  like  a  lion.  His  son 
Wm.  was  the  first  white  child 
born  in  Kentucky  and  became  an 
eminent  lawyer,  being  twice  ap- 
pointed appellate  Judge  of  Ken- 
tucky and  in  1820  was  a  United 
States  Senator  from  Kentucky. 
John  Logan. 

John  Logan  brother  of  Benja- 
min was  engaged  in  the  Battle 
of  Point  Pleasant.  He  emigrat- 
ed from  Virginia  to  Kentucky 
where  he  was  a  military  leader 
and  several- times  was  a  repre- 
sentative. 

George  Clendennin. 

George  Clendennin  who  par- 
ticipated in  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant,  represented  Green- 
brier  County  in  the  Convention 
at  Richmond,  1788,  that  ratified 
the  Federal  Constitution  of  Vir- 
ginia. In  that  year,  he  purchas- 
ed 1030  acres  of  land,  the  site  of 
the  present  city  of  Charleston, 
and  in  that  year  built  Fort  Lee, 


afterward  called  Fort  Clenden- 
nin. In  1794,  the  town  of 
Charleston  was  laid  off,  which 
was  not  named,  but  finally  called 
Charlestown,  in  honor  of  Charles 
Clendennin,  father  of  George. 

The  first  court  was  held  in  Kan- 
awha  County,  Oct.  5,  1789,  at  the 
residence  of  George  Clendennin, 
a  County  Lieutenant.  He  was 
one  of  the  first  representatives 
of  Kanawha  Cpunty,  1790-1791- 
1792  1794-1795.  Irf  1794  he  was 
made  a  trustee  for  the  newly 
laid  off  town  of  Point  Pleasant. 

His  wife  was  Jemima,  claimed 
by  some  to  be  the  sister  of  Thos. 
Pawing,  of  Ohio,  but  which  has 
been  found  to  be  an  error.  He 
died  after  1795,  when  his  name 
last  appears  as  signing  a  deed 
and  in  1797  his  wife  appeared  in 
court  as  his  widow,  when  she 
gave  bond  as  administratrix. 

Parthena,  daughter  of  George 
and  Jemima,  Clendennin  married 
John  Meigs  of  Marietta,  Ohio. 
John  Meigs  dying,  his  widow 
married  Major  Andrew  Bryan, 
their  daughter  Mary  married 
John  McCulloch,  from  whom  de- 
scended Mrs.  M.  M.  Moore,  Mrs. 
P.  S,  Lewis,  Mrs.  J.  J.  Bright, 
John  A.  and  Charles  E.  McCul- 
loch, who  were  reared  on  a  farm 
below  Kanawha  in  Arbuckle  Dis- 
rict,  Mason  Co.,  West  Virginia. 

Mary,  the  third  daughter  of 
George  Clendennin,  married 
Major  John  Cantrell  whose  only 
daughter  became  the  wife  of  the 


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late  C.  C.  Miller,  of  Mason  county, 
who  has  left  many    descendants. 

Alexander  Breckenridge 

Alexander  Breckenridge  nam- 
^ed  for  his  maternal  grandfather 
Alexander  Breckeriridge  was  in 
the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  and 
later  served  as  Colonel  in  the  7tb, 
Virginia  in  the    Revolution,  re- 
signing in  1778.  He  was  for  many 
years  Clerk  of  Augusta  County. 
He  and  Patrick  Henry  married 
sisters. 

Capt.  John  Lewis 

Captain  John  Lewis  eldest  son 
of  Thos.  Lewis  was  a  nephew  of 
Gen'l  Andrew  Lewis.  He  was 
born  in  1749.  He  was  wounded 
at  the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant. 
He  engaged  in  the  struggles  of 
the  Revolution,  was  at  Valley 
Forge  and  Jersey,  and  witness- 
ed the  surrender  of  Cornwallis. 
Stephen  Trigg. 

Capt.  Stephen  Trigg,  of  the 
Battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  was  a 
member  of  the  Virginia  Assem- 
bly from  Fincastle  in  1774,  when 
Governor  Dunmore  dissolved 
that  body.  He  signed  the  Arti- 
cles of  Association  of  the  Colo- 
nies in  1775  and  was  active  in 
protecting  the  frontier  during 
the  Revolution.  In  1779  he  emi- 
grated to  Kentucky  and  repre- 
sented that  county  in  the  Vir- 
ginia Assembly  1780,  While 
leading  a  charge  at  the  Battle  of 
Blue  Licks,  1782,  he  was  killed. 
William  Herbert, 

Captain   William   Herbert  was 


a  Captain  of  Fincastle  Militia, 
who  participated  in  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant.  He  died  1776. 

Walter  Crockett. 

Captain  Walter  Crockett  was 
born  on  the  South  Fork  of  the 
Holston  River.  He  was  a  coun- 
ty magistrate.  He  continued  in 
the  patriot  army  after  the  Battle 
of  Point  Pleasant  and  distin- 
guished himself  at  King's  Moun- 
tain, 3780. 

John  Floyd. 

John  Floyd,  who  was  a  school 
teacher,  made  his  home  with  Col. 
Wm.  Preston,  of  Fincastle  Coun- 
ty, was  a  native  of  Virginia,  born 
1750.  In  1774,  he  was  appointed 
a  deputy  sheriff.  In  the  spring 
of  1774,  he  led  a  surveying  party 
to  Kentucky  and,  returning, 
joined  Wm.  Christian  in  the 
Point  Pleasant  expedition,  arriv- 
ing too  late  to  actively  engage  in 
the  battle,  but  was  active  in  the 
g-ood  offices  of  his  company  in 
ministering  to  the  needs  of  the 
army.  He  married  Jane  Buck- 
hannon,  niece  of  Col.  Preston, 
and  in  1779  located  in  Kentucky, 
where,  in  1783,  he  was  killed  by 
Indians.  His  son,  John  Floyd, 
who  was  born  in  Jefferson  Coun- 
ty, Virginia,  1770,  represented 
Virginia  in  Congress  1817-1829, 
— Governor  of  Virginia  1829- 
1834.  South  Carolina  cast 
her  electoral  vote,  for  him  for 
president  in  1832.  His  son, 
John  B.  Floyd,  grandson  of  the 
John  Floyd  of  Point  Pleasant 


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campaig-n,  was  a  member  of  the 
Virginia  Legislature  1847  and 
was  Governor  of  Virginia  1850- 
1853  and  was  Secretary  of  War 
under  President  James  Buck- 
hannan.  He  was  indicted  by 
the  government,  charged  with 
the  misuse  of  government  sup- 
plies and  funds.  He  demanded 
a  trial  and  was  exonerated.  He 
resigned  his  position  and  became 
Gen.  John  Floyd  of  the  Confed- 
erate Army.  He  married  Sallie 
Buckhannan,  granddaughter  of 
Wm.  Campbell,  of  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant,  and  a 'niece  of 
Patrick  Henry.  They  had  no 
children. 

Benjamin  Lewis- 

Quoting  from  the  biography  of 
his  decendant,  State  Historian 
and  Archivest  Virgil  Anson 
Lewis,  in  "Men  of  West  Vir- 
ginia" (1903)  page  31,  "'His  pa- 
ternal ancestors  were  among  the 
first  settlers  of  the  Shenandoah 
Valley,  where  they  were  found- 
ers of  the  city  of  Staunton. 
They  were  active  frontiersmen 
and  participants  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary and  Indian  Wars.  His 
great  grandfather,  Benjamin 
Lewis,  was  wounded  in  the  Battle 
of  Point  Pleasant  and  after  the 
wars  were  over  in  1792  settled  in 
what  is  now  Mason  County,  West 
Virginia,  and  is  buried  in  Wag- 
goner District,  near  the  spot 
where  he  thus  found  a  home." 

The  following  from  the  War 
Department  Adjutant  General's 


Office,  Washington,  D.  C.,  under 
date  March  28,  1908,  is  authori- 
tative that  after  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant,  he  continued  to 
serve  in  the  patriot  army:  "It 
is  shown  by  the  records  that  one 
Benjamin  Lewis  who  served  as 
a  seargent  in  Capt.  John  Spots- 
wood's  Co.  10th  Virginia  Regi- 
ment Commanded  successively 
by  Col.  Edmond  Stevens  and 
Major  Samuel  Harnes  and  Col. 
John  Green,  'Revolutionary  War. 
He  enlisted  November  29,  1776, 
to  serve  three  years  and  was  dis- 
charged July  5,  1778. 

Signed,  F.  C,  Ainsworth' 

The  Adjutant  General." 

That  Benjamin  Lewis  above 
referred  to  was  not  a  descendant 
of  John  Lewis,  the  founder  of 
Staunton,  we  quote  from  a  mem- 
orandum of  Mrs.  Sarah  Lewis 
Rodgers,  who  was  raised  at  the 
old  Lewis  home  on  Muddy  Creek, 
in  Greenbrier  County,  who  mov- 
ed in  pioneer  days  to  Illinois. 
Writing-  to  her  nephew,  Rev. 
Jacob  H.  Lewis,  a  Presbyterian 
minister,  of  Greenbrier  county, 
the  latter  dying-  at  92  years  of 
age,  the  manuscript  is  yet  pre- 
served and  says : 

"Our  Lewis  family  in  Green- 
brier  county  originated  from 
three  brothers,  John  George  and 
Benjamin  Lewis,  who  came  to 
the  county  in  an  early  day  from 
the  Valley  of  Virginia.  About 
the  close  of  the  Revolution,  Ben- 
jamin went  to  the  Ohio.  George 


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Lewis  never  married.  John 
married  Miss  McCrary  and  their 
sister,  a  Mrs.  Van  Orzel,  is 
buried  iu  the  old  Caraway  grave- 
yard." 

None  of  the  sons  of  John  Lew- 
is founder  of  Staunton  Virginia 
left  descendants  such  as  those 
above  described,  but  it  has  been 
claimed  that  the  above  Benjamin 
was  the  son  -of  Thomas,  he  the 
son  of  John.  Mrs.  M.  L.  Price, 
West  Virginia  historian  of  the 
John  Lewis  family  from  whom 
she  descends,  says  Thomas 
Lewis'  son,  Wm.  Benjamin,  was 
born  1778  (four  years  after  the 
Battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  in  which 
the  family  traditions  and  papers 
have  always  shown  Benjamin 
Lewis  to  have  been)  while  L.  L. 
Lewis,  of  Richmond,  recognized 
as  an  authority  on  the  John  Lew- 
is, Staunton,  branch,  says : 
"Thomas  Lewis  had  a  son  Ben- 
jamin, but  he  lived  and  died  in 
Rockingham  County,  Virginia." 

As  early  as  1812  we  find  in 
Mason  county  that  Benjamin 
Lewis  conveyed  land  which  was 
acquired  before  Mason  County 
was  formed,  as  the  land  books 
show  no  transfer  to  him  in  that 
county  prior  to  1812  and  he  con- 
tinued to  buy  and  convey  lands 
as  the  records  show,  and  that  in 
1831  there  was  much  conveying 
of  titles  of  his  lands  by  his  chil- 
dren which  would  indicate  that 
he  died  on  or  before  that  year. 
Land  convevances  show  the 


given  name  of  the  wife  of  Benja- 
min Lewis  to  have  been  Nancy, 
and  their  children  to  have  been 
Sarah,  who  married  Samuel  Ed- 
wards, Jvhn  who  married 

Edwards,  Benjamin,  Jr.,  who 
emigrated  to  Iowa,  Catherine 
who  married  Michael  Newhouse, 
George  who  married  Margaret 
Winkleblack,  William  who  mar- 
ried Lucinda  Clendennin,  An- 
drew, Isaac  and  probably  others. 
Josiah  Ramsey. 

After  being  engaged  in  the 
Battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  Josiah 
Ramsey  returned  to  Augusta 
County.  He  served  as  a  scout 
in  the  Cherokee  campaign  of 
1776.  [n  1778,  he  removed  to 
Kentucky.  In  1779,  he  moved  to 
Cumberland  Settlement,  where 
he  was  appointed  Major  of  Mili- 
tia and  was  frequently  engaged 
against  the  Indians.  He  lived 
to  an  advanced  age  spending  the 
close  of  his  life  with  a  son  in 
Missouri. 

William  Bowen. 

William  Bowen,  often  related  a 
hand  to  hand  encounter  with  an 
Indian  antagonist  at  Point  Pleas- 
ant whom  he  finally  overpowed. 
He  was  a  native  of  Maryland, 
born  1744.  In  1759  he  engaged 
in  the  border  warfare  with  Wm. 
Christian.  In  early  life,  he  had 
moved  to  Augusta  County,  Vir- 
ginia. In  1784  he  removed  to 
Summers  County,  Tennessee, 
where  he  passed  the  remainder 
of  his  life. 


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Joseph  Drake. 

Joseph  Drake  who  was  with 
Wm.  Christian's  Regiment  at 
Point  Pleasant,  had  served  as  a 
private  in  Boquet's  expedition 
in  1764.  He '  was  one  of  the 
Long  Hunters  1770-71.  In  1773 
he  married  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Col.  John  Buchhanan.  In 
1775,  he  visited  Kentucky  and  in 
June  of  that  year  led  an  explor- 
ing party  on  Green  River.  He 
resided  at  Abington,  Virginia 
until  1778,  when  he  moved  to 
near  Boones borough,  Ky.,  and 
in  August  of  that  year  was  killed 
by  the  Indians.  He  was  a  typi- 
cal frontiersman. 

William    Edmiston, 

Lieutenant  William  Edmiston 
(Edtnondston)  a  native  of  Mary- 
land, born  1734,  moved  at  an 
early  date  to  Augusta  County, 
Virginia.  He  was  a  private  in 
the  French  an  Indian  War  and 
the  Cherokee  Campaign  1760. 
In  1763  he  was  appointed  Lieu- 
tenant of  Militia  for  Augusta 
County.  He  was  in  Capt.  Wm. 
Campbell's  Company  at  Point 
Pleasant  and  was  his  second  in 
command  at  King's  Mountain, 
in  which  eight  members  of 
his  family  were  eng-aged,  three 
of  whom  were  killed.  One  of 
those  who  survived  of  that  fami- 
ly was  James  Edmiston  who  has 
descendants  living-  in  many  coun- 
ties in  West  Virginia,  including 
the  county  of  Mason. 


William  Ingles. 

Major  William  Ingles,  who,  at 
the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  was 
in  charge  of  a  commissary  with 
the  rank  of  Major,  was  a  native 
of  Ireland,  born  1729,  emigrating 
with  his  father  when  a  child  to 
Pennsylvania,  settling  with  John 
Draper  at  Draper's  Mead- 
ows in  1748.  In  1750  he 
married  Mary  Draper,  whose 
capture  by,  and  escape  from, 
the  Indians,  is  one  of  the 
thrilling  pages  of  pioneer  history. 
During  the  Indian  Wars,  Wm. 
Ingles  was  active  in  defense  of 
the  frontiers.  In  1756  he  was  a 
Lieutenant  in  the  Sandy  Creek 
expedition.  In  1758-60,  he  de- 
fended the  fort  at  Ingle's  Ferry. 
In  1777  he  was  made  Colonel  of 
Militia  in  the  organization  of 
Montgomery  County.  In  1782, 
he  died  at  his  home  at  Ingles 
Ferry. 

Thomas  Ingles. 

Thomas  Ingles  was  with  his 
mother,  Mary  Ingles,  who  was 
captured  by  the  Indians,  remain- 
ing with  them  until  1768,  practi- 
cally becoming-  a  young-  Indian  in 
his  habits.  Returning  to  his 
home  for  a  few  years,  he  tried  to 
adopt  the  habits  of  civilization 
and  education,  but  he  never  for- 
got his  Indian  friends.  He  was 
in  the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant, 
remaining  the  following  winter 
in  the  Fort,  during  which  time 
he  visited  the  Indians  at  Scioto. 
In  1782,  his  wife  was  captured  by 


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the  Indians  and  his  home  burned. 
He  removed  afterward  to  Ten- 
nessee, thence  to  Mississippi, 
where  be  died. 

Henry  Pauling. 

Capt.  Henry  Pauling"  who  com- 
manded a  company  of  Bottetourt 
troops  at  Point  Pleasant,  con 
tinued  in  frontier  service  and  in 
1*777  went  with  Col,  Bowman  to 
the  relief  of  the  Kentucky 
frontier  soon  after  which  he  set- 
tled in  that  state  and  represented 
Lincoln  County,  Ky,,  in  the  con- 
vention of  that  state  that  ratified 
the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States,  but  he  voted  against  the 
ratification  of  that  instrument. 
Francis  Slaughter. 

Col.  Francis  Slaughter  who 
was  at  the  battle  of  Point  Pleas- 
ant was  a  member  of  one  of  the 
best  Virginia  Families.  He 
married  a  daughter  of  Robert 
Coleman  of  Dunmore  and  in  1785 
moved  to  Kentucky,  settling-  in 
Hardin  County. 

Lawrence    And  George    Slaughter. 

Lawrence  and  Georg-e  Slaugh- 
ter each  married  a  daug'hter  of 
Col,  John  Field  and  both  were 
in  his  regiment  at  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant.  Col.  George 
Slaughter  in  1776  raising  a  com- 
pany, participated  in  the  8th  Va. 
Reg.  at  Brandy  wine  and  German- 
town.  In  1779  he  joined  Shelby 
in  the  Chickamauga  Campaign 
and  in  that  winter  started  to  re- 
enforce  George  Rodgers  Clark, 
but  was  oblig-ed  to  winter  at 


Louisville,  Ky.,  joining1  him  the 
following1  Jane,  after  which  he 
returned  to  Virginia  and  in  1784 
represented  his  county  in  the 
house  of  Delegates.  Later  he 
moved  to  Jefferson  county,  Ken- 
tucky, thence  to  Charleston,  Ind., 
where  he  died  June  17,  1819. 

The  McAfee  Brothers. 

McAfee  station  on  Salt  River, 
in  Mercer  County,  Kentucky, 
commemorates  the  name  of  five 
McAfee  brothers,  James,  Robert, 
George,  William  and  Samuel, 
who  lived  on  Sinking  Creek, 
Bottetourt  County,  Virginia, 
from  which  place  they  finally  all 
emigrated  to  Kentucky,  in  1779. 
The  first  three  named  with 
James  McConn,  Jr.,  and  Samuel 
Adams,  were  Kentucky  explor- 
ers in  1773  with  Col.  Bullit  and 
Hancock  Taylor.  They  all  par- 
ticipated in  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant. 

William  McAfee  was  in  the 
George  Rodgers  Clarke  expedi- 
tion and  was  killed  in  1780. 
George  died  in  1803  at  his  home 
on  Salt  River.  Samuel  died  in 
1801,  James  in  1814,  and  Robert 
who  was  one  of  the  early  dealers, 
who,  by  flat  boat,  took  large  car- 
goes of  produce  to  New  Orleans, 
in  1795,  when  on  such  a  mission, 
was  killed  by  a  Spaniard  in 
that  city,  who  was  attempting  to 
rob  him.  They  left  descendants, 
many  of  whom  are  yet  residents 
of  Kentucky. 


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James  Knox. 

Major  James  Knox  served  un- 
der Col.  Chester  in  the  capacity 
of  scout*  in  1774.  During-  the 
Revolution  he  commanded  a  com- 
pany of  Morgan's  Riflemen  en- 
gaged at  Saratoga  and  Still  water, 
returning  with  the  rank  of  Ma- 
jor. Settling  in  Kentucky,  he 
married  Mrs.  Logan,  the  widow 
of  Benjamin  Logan,  who  was  in 
the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant. 
James  Knox  died  in  1822.  He 
had  accumulated  a  good  fortune 
and  was  respected  by  all  who 
knew  him. 

John  Madison. 

John  Madison  was  of  the  dis- 
tinguished Virginia  family  that 
gave  to  America  the  president  of 
that  name,  being  a  first  cousin  of 
President  Madison.  His  son- 
James  Madison,  was  the  first 
American  Episcopal  Bishop. 
Other  of  his  sons  who  distin- 
guished themselves  were 
Thomas,  Rowland  and  George, 
who  emigrated  to  Kentucky. 
John  Madison  was  the  first 
Clerk  of  Augusta  County  and 
represented  that  county  in  the 
Virginia  Assembly  in  1751-52. 
He  married  a  Miss  Strother,  sis- 
ter to  the  wives  of  Thomas  Lew- 
is and  Gabriel  Jones  of  Augusta 
County. 

Kimberling. 

Elijah  Kimberling  of  Bath 
County,  Va..  who  was-engaged 
in  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant, 
returned  to  Bath  County,  Va., 


where  he  resided  until  the  time 
of  his  death.  So  pleased,  how- 
ever, were  his  sons  with  his  de- 
striptionof  the  Kanawah  Valley, 
that  his  four  sons,  Joseph, 
James,  Jacob  and  Nathaniel  emi- 
grated to  Mason  County  West 
Virginia  and  located  on  farms  in 
Union  District,  near  Arbuckle 
Postoffice.  They  became  the 
progenitors  of  a  large  and  influ- 
ential family  in  the  Kanawha 
Valley.  Among  whom  were 
Elijah  Kimberling,  for  many 
years  a  public  official  of  Mason 
County,  who  married  Margaret 
Catherine  Jones,  a  native  of  Cul- 
pepper  Couuty,  Virginia,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  Jones,  and  Ann 
Winn,  his  wife. 

William  Ewing. 

William  Ewing,  a  member  of 
Arbuckle's  company  at  Point 
Pleasant,  settled  on  Swago  Creek, 
tributary  to  the  Greenbrier, 
near  Buckeye,  Va.  He  was  one 
of  the  garrison  at  Point  Pleasant 
and  witnessed  the  murder  of 
Cornstalk. 

William  McKee. 

William  McKee,  born  in  Ire- 
land in  1732,  and,  emigrating 
when  a  youth  to  the  Valley  of 
Virginia,  was  in  the  Braddock 
Campaign.  At  Point  Pleasant 
he  was  a  lieutenant  in  Captain 
Murray's  company.  He  later 
represented  Rockbridge  County 
in  the  Virginia  Legislature  and 
voted  in  favor  of  the  adoption  of 
the  Constitution.  He  emigrated 


to  Lincoln    County,    Kentucky, 
where  he  died  in  1816. 
Charles  Simms. 

Charles  Simms  was  in  the  divis- 
ion commanded  by  Col.  Lewis  who 
expired  in  his  arms.  In  the  con- 
tinental army  he  was  first  major 
of  the  12th  Virginia,  later  Lieut. 
Col.  of  the  6th  Va.  and  later  of 
the  2nd  Virginia  Regiment.  On 
Dec.  7,  1777,  he  resigned  from 
the  army  and  practiced  law  at 
Alexandria,  Virginia,  where  he 
continued  to  reside  until  the  time 
of  his  death. 

George  Moffatt. 

Captain  George  Moffatt  was 
born  in  1735.  His  father  was 
killed  by  indians  in  1749,  enroute 
to  South  Carolina.  In  1763, 
George  was  Captain  of  a  com- 
pany of  Rangers  in  pursuit  of 
Indians  that  had  killed  his  step- 
father, John  Trimble,  and  cap- 
tured his  sister  and  half  brother. 
He  rescued  his  loved  ones.  Col- 
Wm.  Christian  was  his  uncle  and 
Samuel  McDowell  his  brother-in- 
law  and  in  the  battle  at  Point 
Pleasant,  with  him  were  many 
of  his  kindred.  In  the  war  of 
the  Revolution  he  was  active  and 
commanded  a  regiment  at  Guil- 
ford  Court  House.  From  1781- 
83  he  was  County  Lieutenant  of 
Augusta.  He  died  at  his  home 
eight  miles  northwest  of  Staun- 
ton  in  1811. 

John  Murray. 

Capt.  John  Murray,  killed  in 
the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  was 


a  brother  in  law  of  Col.  Charles 
Lewis,  and  a  half-brother  of 
Charles  Cameron,  and  Geo.  Cam- 
eron, the  last  named,  was  killed 
in  the  battle. 

William  Trotter. 

William  Trotter  who  was  en- 
gaged in  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant,  was  an  Englishman  by 
birth,  coming  to  America  and  an 
indentured  servant.  Coming  at 
the  same  time  with  Ann  Hennis, 
who,  like  him,  was  "sold  out"  to 
defray  the  expense  of  their  pas- 
sage. They  were  bought  in 
Augusta  County,  Va.,  and  when 
his  term  of  service  had  expired, 
he  enlisted  with  Col.  Charles 
Lewis,  and  was  killed  in  the  Bat- 
tle of  Point  Pleasant.  This  so 
incensed  his  widow  that  she  don- 
ned a  semi-male  attire  and  with 
rifle  and  tomahawk  she  was  seen 
at  musters  like  a  man.  Later 
she  married  James  Bailey. 
James  Bailey. 

James  Bailey,  who  was  with 
Col.  Charles  Lewis  and  who 
afterward  married  Ann  Hennis, 
the  widow  of  Richard  Trotter,  is 
more  noted  for  being  the  hus- 
band of  Ann  Bailey,  the  heroine 
of  the  Kanawha  Valley  than  for 
his  own  achivements.  He  was 
assigned  to  garrison  dnty  at 
Fort  Clendennin  where  the  pres- 
ent city  of  Charleston  is  now 
located.  Ann  Bailey  was  the 
mother  of  one  son,  William  Trot- 
ter, who  located  in  Harrison 
Township,  Gallia,  Ohio,  where 
his  descendants  yet  reside. 


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Waiter  Newman. 

Walter  Newman,  a  native  of 
Pennsylvania,  was  in  the  Battle 
of  Point  Pleasant  and  was  one  of 
the  first  to  locate  here  when  the 
new  town  was  laid  off.  He  pur- 
chased the  grounds  upon  which 
the  Mansion  House  in  Tue  Endie 
Wei  Park  now  stands  and  built 
the  first  hewn  log"  house  in  the 
county,  which,  for  its  beauty  and 
size,  was  called  the  Mansion 
House.  The  house  was  built  in 
17%.  In  August,  1804,  he  was 
licensed  to  establish  a  ferry 
across  both  the  rivers,  Ohio  and 
Kanawha,  and  granted  a  license 
to  sell  spirituous  liquors  and 
keep  an  ordinary  at  bis  house  in 
the  town  of  Point  Pleasant. 
This  was  the  first  place  in  which 
liquor  was  ever  legally  sold  in 
the  county.  Mr.  Newman  was 
also  the  first  man  in  the  county 
to  support  a  missionary,  sending 
his  nephew,  Rev.  James  New- 
man, as  a  missionary  to  South 
America. 

William  Moore. 

William  Moore,  of  Rockbridge 
County,  after  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant,  became'  Capt.  Wm. 
Moore  of  the  Revolution.  He 
was  a  merchant  of  Lexington, 
Virginia,  and  purchased  the  first 
bag  of  coffee  ever  purchased  in 
Virginia,  which  be  found  slow 
sale  for.  Later,  he  built  an  iron 
furnace  at  South  River  in  Rock- 
bridge  Co.  He  was  a  Justice  of 
the  Peace  for  manv  vears  and 


served  as  high  sheriff  of  Rock- 
bridge  for  two  terms.  He  died 
in  1841,  aged  93  years.  His  wife 
was  Miss  Nancy  McClung,  by 
whom  he  had  children,  Samuel, 
David,  John,  Eliab,  Joseph.  Isa- 
bella, Elizabeth  and  Nancy. 
John  Lyle. 

John  Lyle,  of  Capt.  McDowell's 
Company,  became  Rev.  John 
Lyle,  of  Hampshire  County,  now 
West  Virginia,  a  pioneer  minis- 
ter, who  proved  to  be  a  power 
for  good  in  that  region. 

William  Robertson. 

William  Robertson  of  Augusta 
Countv,  was  commissioned  a 
Lieutenant  July,  1775.  He  dis- 
tinguished himself  at  Great 
Bridge,  Brandywine  and  Ger- 
mantown.  He  died  Nov.  12, 
1831. 

John  Lewis. 

Captain  John  Lewis,  son  of 
Thomas  Lewis,  of  Augusta  Co., 
was  with  his  uncle,  Andrew 
Lewis,  at  Point  Pleasant,  where 
be  was  wounded.  He  was  born 
in  1749,  died  1788,  leaving  four 
children.  He  served  under 
Washington  at  Valley  Forge  and 
in  the  Jerseys  and  witnessed  the 
surrender  of  Cornwallis. 
John  Frogg. 

The  Sutler  of  the  Army,  was 
killed  at  Point  Pleasant.  Oct.  10 
1774, 'by  the  Indians  and  was 
there  buried. 

He  came  to  Staunton  from  the 
Rappahannock  and  married, 
Miss  Agatha  Lewis,  a  daughter 


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of  Thomas  Lewis  a  brother  of 
General  Andrew  and  Col. 
Charles  Lewis,  and  when  the 
Army  started  for  the  Ohio  river, 
Mr.  Frogg  was  appointed  the 
Sutler  and  went  with  them. 

He  was  a  handsome  young- 
man,  gallant,  generous  and  fond 
of  display  and  spoken  of  as  a 
very  worthy  gentleman  and  pop- 
ular with  the  men,  and  by  one 
writer,  when  giving  a  list  of  the 
dead,  spoke  of  him,  as  "poor 
'John  Frogg." 

When  be  went  into  the  battle, 
he  had  on  a  brilliant  red  jacket, 
which  made  him  a  prominent 
mark  for  Indians  and  when  he 
fell,  there  were  no  less  than  five 
Indians  that  had  made  an  at 
tempt  to  secure  his  scalp,  and 
all  five  of  them  were  found  dead 
on  the  ground  where  poor  John 
lay.  It  is  tradition  that  the  little 
daughter  was  awakened  from 
her  sleep  at  three  several  times 
by  the  dream  of  her  father  be- 
ing killed  by  the  Indians,  which 
she  related  to  her  mother  several 
days  before  it  was  known  that 
there  had  been  a  battle.  Mr. 
Frogg  was  related  to  the  Strother 
family,  one  of  whom  was  the  wife 
of  John  Madison,  Clerk  of  Augus- 
ta Co.,  one  was  the  wife  of 
Gabriel  Jones,  the  Crown's  At- 
torney for  said  County  and  the 
other  was  the  wife  of  Thomas 
Lewis,  the  Surveyor  of  said 
County. 

His  widow  became  the  wife  of 


Capt  John  Stuart  of  Greenbrier 
who  was  also  in  said  battle;  and 
his  daughter  married  a  Mr. 
Estili. 

It  may  not  have  been  the  duty 
of  Mr.  Frogg  to  go  into  the  bat- 
tle at  all,  but  it  is  certain  he  was 
not  required  to  attire  himself  in 
a  brilliant  red  jacket  and  make  of 
himself  a  mark  forsbarpshooters 
and  loose  his  life,  but,  it  required 
five  Indians  to  pay  for  his  life. 

Agatha  Lewis,  his  wife,  was 
born  May  18,  1753  and  she 
married  Capt.  John  Stuart  Nov. 
18,  1776. 

William  McCorkle. 

William  McCorkle,  who  engag- 
ed in  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant, 
was  the  son  of  Alexander  Me 
Corcle  (McCorkle)  who  had  his 
American  origin  in  Pennsylvania, 
in  the  Scotch-Irish  reservoir  of 
the  Cumberland  Valley,  among 
the  other  Scotch  Irish,  who,  emi- 
grating to  the  Valleys  of  the 
Shenandoah  and  James,  became 
he  very  seat  of  culture  and  the 
greatest  factors  in  Virginia's 
power,  and  gave  that  state  her 
prominence  in  the  sisterhood  of 
states. 

In  the  spring  of  1774  Win  Mc- 
Corkle was  making  preparations 
to  emigrate  with  a  great  body  of 
Virginians  to  Kentucky  and,  on 
June  3rd  of  that  year,  a  survey 
of  1,000  acres  of  land  was  set 
aside  for  him  near  the  present 
city  of  Louisville. 

Indian  hostilities  necessitating 


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the  protection  of  the  frontier, 
and  although  not  a  young-  man, 
VVm.  McCorkle  enlisted  as  a  vol- 
unteer in  Captain  John  Murry's 
Company  from  Botetourt  and  en- 
gaged in  the  Point  Pleasant 
Campaign.  He  returned  to 
Kockbridge  Coutity  to  the  lands 
be  held  near  Lexington,  and 
which  had  continued  in  the  pos- 
session of  his  descendants  until 
1894,  when  it  passed  into  the 
hands  of  strangers. 

Soon  after  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant,  \Vrn.  McCorkle  died 
but  he  had  offered  upon  his 
country's  altar  his  son,  John  Mc- 
Corkle, who,  when  but  twenty- 
three  years  of  age,  was  killed  at 
tbe  Battle  of  Cowpens,  while 
serving  under  Gen.  Morgan. 

John  McCorkle  married  Re 
becca  Nutt,  and  was  survived 
by  his  two  sons,  Alexander  and 
Samuel,  the  younger  Samuel  be- 
ing the  progenitor  of  five  sons, 
the  youngest  of  whom  was  Wil- 
liam McCorkle,  whose  oldest  son 
is  Ex-Governor  William  A.  Mc- 
Corkle, who  served  as  Governor 
of  West  Virginia,  from  March  4, 
1893,  to  March  4,  1897,  and  is 
now  located  at  Charleston,  West 
Virginia,  where,  as  a  historical 
memorial,  he  has  erected  the 
most  beautiful  home  in  the  state, 
"SUNRISE",  on  the  summit  of 
the  mountain;  embellished  with 
historic  stones  and  furnished 
and  decorated  vuth  historic  mem- 
-entoes,  demonstrating  that -his 


heredity  has  made  him  revere 
the  past  as  it  has  made  him  boun- 
tifully prepare  for  the  future. 

Robert  Campbell. 
Robert  Campbell,  who  was  en- 
gaged in  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant',  was  born  in  tbe  Valley 
of  Virginia  in  1755.  He  was  en- 
gaged tnroughout  the  Revolution. 
He  displayed  great  bravery  in 
his  conflicts  with  the  Cherokees. 
He  was  in  command  of  a  Regi- 
ment at  King's  Mountain,  Oct. 
7,  1780  For  forty  years  he  was 
a  magistrate  of  Washington 
County,  Virginia.  In  1825,  he 
emigrated  to  Tennessee  with 
his  children  and  there  died. 

John  Carter. 

John  Carter  became  a  pioneer 
of  Tennessee.  During  the  Rev- 
olution, he  was  elected  with  John 
Sevier  and  Charles  Robertson  to 
the  Convention  that  assembled 
at  Hartford,  N.  C.,  in  1785,  and 
framed  a  Constitution  for  the 
State  of  Franklin,  which  was  re- 
united with  North  Carolina  in 
1788. 

Matthew   Bracken, 

Matthew  Bracken  had  been  a 
surveyor  with  Thomas  Hanson 
from  Virginia  in  the  exploration 
and  surveying  expedition  to  Ken- 
tucky, which  left  Fincastle  on 
April7th,  1774.  "Bracken  Creek" 
in  Mason  county,  Kentucky, 
commemorates  his  name.  He 
returned  to  Kentucky  in  time  to 
enlist  as  an  ensign  in  the  comp- 
any of  Capt.  Robert  McClena- 


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ban's  Company  of  volunteers 
from  Botetourt.  He  was  killed 
in  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant 
and  his  remains  were  buried 
within  the  forty  foot  reservation, 
now  a  part  of  Tu-Endie  Wei 
Park,  at  the  mouth  of  the 
Kanawha. 

Capt.  Johji  Lewis. 

Capt  John  Lewis  eldest  son  of 
Gen'l  Andrew  Lewis  married 
Miss  Patsy  Love  of  Alexandria 
Virginia  who  had  four  children. 
His  eldest  son  Andrew  married 
Jane  McClenahan  of  Botetourt 
County  Virginia  and  they  were 
the  parents  of  six  children  who 
lived  to  maturity.  Jonn,  William 
and  Samuel  locating  in  Kanawha 
County  near  the  mouth  of  Scary. 

John  Lewis  known  as  Coal  Riv- 
er John  was  a  man  of  great  wealth 
and  prominence  and  from  him 
through  his  daughter  Marjorie 
who  married  1st  Edward  Kenna 
and  2nd  Richard  Ashbey  has  de- 
scended through  this  first  mar- 
riage Hon.  John  E.  Kenna  who 
represented  the  old  third  dis- 
trict of  West  Virginia  three 
times  in  Congress  and  was  twice 
elected  to  the  United  States  Sen- 
at  each  time  being  the  youngest 
member  in  either  branch  of  Con 
gress.  There  are  many  descen- 
dants of  Captain  John  Lewis 
living  on  the  Kanawha  including 
Mr.  Kenna's  family  the  fami- 
ly of  Mr.  Kenna's  sister  Mrs. 
Gentry,  the  family  of  Hon.  Jos. 


Gaines,    M.  C.,  Mr.  Walter  Ash- 
by  and  many  others. 

Thomas  Hacket 

Thomas  Hacket  (Haket)  of 
Rich  Creek  Virginia  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Capt.  Michael  Woods 
Company  at  Point  Pleasant,  soon 
after  which  he  settled  at  Peters- 
burg Virginia  where  he  continu- 
ed to  reside  until  after  Waynes 
Treaty.  Lured  by  the  beauty 
and  fertility  of  the  Ohio  Valley 
be  settled  at  Kyger  Ohio  in  Gal- 
lia  Count}'  where  he  died  and  is 
buried  having  lived  to  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  104  vears. 

Among  other  children  he  left 
a  daughter  Mary  Ann  Hacket 
who  married  Nimrod  Kirk  whose 
daughterElizabeth  (Betsey)  Kirk 
married  George  Knight.  From 
George  Knight  descended  the 
distinguished  Dr.  A.  L.  Knight 
of  Mason  County,  prominent 
farmer  James  Knight  of  Pleasant 
Flats,  the  late  Samuel  Knight  of 
Marietta,  Ohio,  Mr.  George 
Knight  of  Clifton,  and  Mrs. 
Louise  Meeks  of  Dallas,  Mrs. 
Rebecca  Brown  of  Hartford, 
and  Mrs.  Susan  Hogg  of  Point 
Pleasant  and  their  descendants. 
Capt.  James  Curry. 

Capt.  Jas.  Curry  served  under 
Gen'l  Andrew  Lewis  and  was 
severely  wounded  in  the  right 
arm  at  the  battle  of  Point  Pleas- 
ant. His  home  at  that  time  was 
near  Staunton  Virginia.  When 
at  the  age  of  22  years  he  enlisted 
as  a  private. 


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Michael  See. 

While  at  work  outside  the 
fort  at  Point  Pleasant  in  a 
field  near  where  James  Capehart 
now  resides,  in  August  1791 
Michael  See  and  Robert  St.  Clair 
were  killed  by  Indians.  Thomas 
Northrop  and  a  coiored  boy  be- 
longing to  See  were  captured 
and  carried  away  prisoners. 

Michael  See  who  had  been  en- 
gaged in  the  battle  of  Point 
Pleasant  was  living  with  bis  fam- 
ily within  the  fort  where  the 
night  of  his  death  his  wife 
gave  birth  to  a  son,  Wm.  See. 
from  whom  descend  the  Se.es  of 
Mason  County  West  Virginia. 

We  are  indebted  to  Rev.  Price, 
of'Marlinton  and  Rev.  C.  W. 
McDonnald,  ofHuttonsville, 
Randolph  Co.,  descendants  of 
Michael  See  who  send  the  follow- 
in^  Cleaned  from  the  history  of 

O     O 

Randolph  county:  "Michael  See, 
of  German  ancestry,  and  using 
the  language  in  his  family  is  be- 
lieved to  have  been  born  in 
Pennsylvania.  He  came  from 
that  state  to  South  Branch,  what 
is  now  Hardy  County,  W.  Va  , 
about  1765.  His  father's  name 
was  Frederick  Michael  See,  of 
him  but  little  is  known  except  he 
had  a  son  Adam,  but  Adam  never 
lived  in  Randolph  county 
Michael  See,  son  of  Frederick 
See  was  among  the  early  settlers 
of  Tygarts  valley,  Randolph  Co., 
and  his  children  intermarried 
with  the  following  prominent 


families    more    than  a    century 
since. 

Anthony  See  married  Julia 
Leonard;  Adam  See  married 
Margaret  Warwick,  daughter  of 
Jacob  Warwick,  the  pioneer  of 
whose  name  appears  in  the 
Pocahontas  sketches;  Polly  See, 
of  Michael  married  George  See.  . 
Her  daughter  Georgiana  became 
Mrs.  Capt.  J.  W.  Marshall,  a 
noted  confederate  officer  and 
promoter  of  public  improvement. 
Barbara  See  married  William 
McCleary;  John  See  married 
Miss  Stewart,  and  Noah  married 
Margaret  Long 

Col.  James  Curry. 

March,  1900,  Mr.  W.  S. 
Curry  of  Columbus,  Ohio, 
Registrar  of  the  Sons  of  the  Rev- 
olution, sent  us  an  account  of  his 
grandfather  Col  James  Curry, 
above  referred  to.  It  follows: 

"James  Curry  was  closely  en- 
gaged throughout  the  greater 
part  of  the  day  fighting  from  be- 
hind first  one  tree  and  then  an- 
other but  later  in  the  day  was 
shot  through  the  right  elbow. 
It  is  said  he  asked  the  surgeon 
who  dressed  his  wound  'If  it 
would  hurt  him  to  take  a  drink 
of  wine?'  to  which  the  surgeon  re- 
plied 'No  if  you  take  it  with  the 
Surgeon.'  He  remained  in  the 
garrison  until  recovered  from 
his  wounds. 

He  served  in  the  army  through- 
out the  Revolution  as  Captain  in 
the  Fourth  Va,  Inft.,  participa- 


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ting-  in  the  battle  of  Brandy  wine, 
Yorktown.  He  was  wounded  at 
the  siege  of  Charleston,  S.  C.  and 
taken  prisoner  May  12,  1871  by 
Gen.  Lincoln's  Army. 

After  the  Revolution  he  settled 
at  Staunton,  served  a  term  as 
Clerk  of  the  Court  for  Augusta 
Co.  In  1797  he  moved  to  High- 
land County  Ohio  where  he  en- 
tered a  Virginia  Military  tract 
of  land. " 

Solomon  Brumfield 

Solomon  Brumfield  who  enlis- 
ted under  Gen'l.  Andrew  Lewis 
at  Staunton  resided  where  the 
city  of  Washington  is  now  built. 
Wm.  Hamilton. 

Wm.  Hamilton  was  an  orderly 
at  Point  Pleasant  in  the  army  of 
Gen'l.  Lewis  and  when  the  battle 
began  was  sent  as  a  messenger 
to  hasten  the  regiments  m 
command  of  Capt.  Wm.  Chris- 
tion  whom  he  met  at  the 
mouth  of  13  mile  creek,  the  pres- 
ent site  of  the  village  of  Leon. 
Here  a  few  were  left  in  charge 
of  supplies  while  the  remainder 
of  the  companies  marched  on  to 
Point  Pleasant  arriving  at  about 
11  o'clock. 

Bazaleel  Wells 

Bazaleel  Wells,  afterward  Gen'l 
Wells  of  the  Revolution,  became 
the  founder  of  Steubenville, 
Ohio,  and  helped  to  form  the 
first  Constitution  of  Ohio.  He 
was  then  a  member  of  the  Ohio 
Senate  and1  was  probably  the 
wealthiest  man  in  Eastern  Ohio 


at  the  begining  ot  the  century. 
It  was  he  who  financed  the  build- 
ing of  the  Zanesville  road  the 
great  highway  of  Ohio  that  prov 
ed  to  be  the  great  artery  of  com- 
merce of  that  successful,  pro- 
gressive new  state. 

John  Murry,  Earl  of  Dunmore. 

(LORD  DUN  MORE.) 

In  reviewing,  (by  many  histor- 
ians,) the  life  and  character  of 
Lord  Dunmore,  there  are  none 
who  have  more  truly  recorded 
his  character  than  Hu  Maxwell, 
in  bis  history  of  Hampshire 
County,  who  says  on  page  51: 

"Before  proceeding  to  a  narra- 
tive of  the  events  of  the  Dunmore 
War.  it  is  not  out  of  place  to  in 
quire  concerning  Governor  Dun- 
more,  and  whether  from  his  past 
acts  and  general  character  he 
would  likely  conspire  with  the 
British  and  the  Indians  to  de- 
stroy the  western  settlements  in 
Virginia.  Whether  the  British 
were  capable  of  an  act  so  savage 
and  unjust  as  inciting  savages  to 
harrass  the  western  frontier  of 
their  own  colonies  is  not  a  mat- 
ter for  controversy.  It  is  a  fact 
that  they  did  do  it  during  the 
Revolutionary  War." 

As  to  a  confirmation  of  the 
character  of  Dunmore  and  his 
methods  we  quote  again  from 
the  same  author,  relating  to 
events  subsequent  to  the  Battle 
of  Point  Pleasant: 

"Dunmore  had  trouble  else- 
where. His  domineering-  con- 


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duct  and  bis  support  of  some  of 
Great  B  r  i  t  i  a  n  '  s  oppressive 
measures,  caused  him  to  be 
bated  by  the  Virginians,  and  led 
to  armed  resistance.  Thereup- 
on be  threatened  to  make  Vir- 
g  nia  a  solitude  using  these  word; 
l'I  do  enjoin  the  true  and  loyal 
subjects  to  repair  to  my  assist- 
ance, or  I  shall  consider  the 
whole  country  in  Rebellion  and 
myself  at  liberty  to  annoy  it  by 
every  possible  means,  and  I 
shall  not  hesitate  to  reduce 
houses  to  ashes,  and  spreading 
devastation  wherever  I  can  reach. 
With  a  small  body  of  troops  and 
arms,  I  could  raise  such  a  force 
from  among  Indians,  negroes  and 
other  persons  as  would  soon  re- 
duce refractory  people  of  them.1' 
The  patriots  finally  rose  in  arms 
and  drove  Dunmore  from  the 
country.  Some  of  these  events 
occurred  after  the  Dunmore  War, 
but  they  serve  to  show  what 
kind  of  a  man  the  Governor  was." 
He  was  born  in  England  in 
May,  1709,  descending  from  the 
house  of  Stuart.  He  succeeded 
to  the  peerage  in  1756;  appointed 
Governor  of  New  York  1770;  of 
Virginia,  July,  1771.  With  a 
band  of  Tory  followers,  he  plun- 
dered the  inhabitants,  residing 
on  the  James  and  York  Rivers. 
He  and  his  followers  suffered 
defeat  at  the  battle  of  Great 
Bridge,  shortly  after  which  he 
burned  Norfolk,  then  the  most 
prosperous  city  in  Virginia.  In 


1779,  he  returned  to  England, 
and,  in  1786,  was  appointed  Gov- 
ernor of  the  Bermudas. 

Logan. 

Tah-gah-jute,  son  of  Shikellan- 
ny,  chief  of  the  Cayuga  Indians, 
was  born  in  about  1725.  He  was 
named  Logan  by  the  whites  for 
James  Logan,  (the  Secretary  of 
Wm.  Penn,)  who  had  been  such 
a  friend  of  the  Indians,  that  they 
accepted  the  name  as  a  badge  of 
honor. 

Logan  was  reared  near  the 
Moravian  settlements  and  his 
relation  to  the  whites  had  been 
most  friendly.  Throughout  Vir- 
ginia and  Pennsylvania  he  was 
known  for  his  commanding  pres- 
ence and  engaging  qualities. 
Residing  with  his  family  near 
Readsville,  Penn.,  he  supported 
them  by  hunting,  and  trap- 
ping and  dressing  hides  which 
he  disposed  of  to  the  whites.  At 
this  time,  the  Mingo  tribe  of  In- 
dians chose  him  as  their  chief. 
About  1770.  he  moved  to  the 
banks  of  the  Ohio,  where,  in  the 
spring  of  1774,  his  family  were 
massacred,  whereupon  he  sent  a 
declaration  of  war  to  Michael 
Cressap,  whom  he  believed  had 
ordered  the  massacre.  Thus 
began  the  fearful  depredations 
that  burst  upon  the  frontier  and 
Logan  is  said  to  have  taken  thirty 
scalps  himself  before  the  termi- 
nation of  hostilities  at  Point 
Pleasant,  where  he  was  engaged 
that  fearful  October  day.  Sub- 


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sequent  to  the  battle  when  the 
other.  Indian  chiefs  sued  for 
peace,  Logan  disdained  to  partic- 
ipate in  the  treaty.  Governor 
Dunmo^  sent  John  Gibson  to 
personally  invite  him  to  the  coun- 
cil and  he  then  gave  out  that 
classic  in  English  literature  that 
has  made  so  famous  the  name  of 
Logan.  It  is  as  follows: 

"I  appeal  to  any  white  man  to 
say  if  he  ever  entered  Logan's 
cabin  hungry,  and  he  gave  him 
not  meat;  if  he  ever  came  cold 
and  naked  and  he  clothed  him 
not.  During  the  course  of  the 
last  long  and  bloody  war,  Logan 
remained  idle  in  his  cabin,  an  ad- 
vocate of  peace.  Such  was  my 
love  for  the  whites  that  my 
Countrymen  pointed  as  they 
passed  and  said:  'Logan  is  the 
friend  of  the  white  men.'  I  bad 
even  thought  to  have  lived  with 
you  but  for  the  injuries  of  one 
man.  Cresap,  the  last  spring,  in 
cold  blood  and  unprovoked,  mur 
dered  all  of  the  relations  of 
Logan,  not  even  sparing  my 
woman  and  children.  There 
runs  not  a  drop  of  my  blood  in 
the  veins  of  any  living  creature. 
This  called  for  my  revenge.  I 
have  sought  it;  I  have  fully  glut- 
ted my  vengeance.  For  my 
country,  I  rejoice  at  the  beams 
of  peace.  But  do  not  harbor 
the  thought  that  mine  is  the  joy 
of  fear;  Logan  never  felt  fear. 
He  will  not  turn  on  his  heel  to 
save  his  life.  Who  is  there  to 


mourn  for  Logan?     Not  one." 

The  speech  was  written  down, 
when  Gibson  repeated  it  to  an 
officer,  and  published  in  the'Vir- 
ginia  Gazette.  Thomas  Jeffer 
son,  a  great  admirer  of  Logan, 
took  pains  to  establish  its 
authenticity  and  published  it  in 
his  Notes  on^Virginia. 

Logan  was  killed  by  his  neph- 
ew at  Lake  Erie  in  the  summer 
of  1780. 

Cornstalk. 

Cornstalk,  the  celebrated 
Shawnee  warrior,  is  first  men- 
tioned in  Colonial  History  in  1763, 
when  about  sixty  Indians,  led  by 
Cornstalk  attacked  the  settle- 
ment on  Muddy  Creek,  in  Green- 
brier  Gounty,  Virginia,  when 
they  pretended  to  be  on  a  friend- 
ly mission,  at  which  time  they 
arose  and  murdered  all  except 
a  few  women  and  children,  whom 
they  took  prisoners.  From 
there  the  Indians  went  on  to  the 
Levels  in  the  same  county,  to 
the  home  of  Alexander  Clenden- 
nin,  where  many  were  gathered 
enjoying  the  fruits  of  a  success- 
ful chase  and  the  Indians,  too 
were  treated  with  the  utmost 
hospitality,  but  they  a^ain  mur- 
dered most  of  the  inmates  of 
that  place.  Mrs.  Clendennin 
was  carried  away  a  prisoner  and 
with  others  taken  to  Muddy 
Creek. 

For  a  year  the  Indian  dep- 
redations were  continued,  un- 
til there  was  not  a  white  set- 


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tiers  left  in  Greenbrier  County 
which  was  not  again  inhabited 
by  whites  until  1769,  when  Col. 
John  Stuart  and  a  few  others  be- 
came permanent  settlers. 

It  is  said  that  Cornstalk  was 
born  in  the  Kanawha  Valley 
about  1727. 

In  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant, 
he  commanded  the  army  consist- 
ing of  the  flower  of  the  Sbawnee, 
Delaware,  Wyandotte,  Mingo  and 
Cayuga  braves,  he  being  the 
King  of  the  federation,  in  their 
herculian  efforts  to  stay  the  on- 
coming tide  of  Saxon  civilization. 
These  Indians  were,  fighting  to 
maintain  their  homes  and  their 
hunting  grounds,  and,  if  the 
whites  were  eyer  to  be  repelled, 
it  must  be  now. 

This  was  not  the  first  time 
in  battle  array  that  the  Shaw- 
nees  had  shown  their  skill 
as  warriors.  In  the  Braddock 
defeat  and  other  campaigns 
they  had  proven  themselves  val- 
iant. They  despised  treaties 
and  had  chafed  under  that  with 
Boquet  so  that  at  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant,  they  had  deter- 
mined to  be  victorious.  It  was 
not  that  they  favored  Great 
Briton.  All  whites  were  alike  to 
them  except  as  they  availed  to 
help  them  save  their  hunting 
grounds;  and  here  were  gathered 
their  ablest  leaders:  Cornstalk, 
Red  Eagle,  Scoppathus,  Blue 
Jacket,  Logan,  Chief  of  the  Ca 
yngas,  Illinipsico,  Red  Hawk, 


the  noted  Deleware  Chief  and 
others  commanding  the  most 
formidable  army  every  arrayed 
as  an  Indian  phalanx.  The 
story  of  their  bravery  has  al- 
ready been  related  in  the  ac- 
counts of  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant,  here  in  published. 

It  were  well  for  the  white  set- 
tlers, if  the  history  of  Cornstalk 
could  have  ended  with  the  Battle 
at  Point  Pleasant.  The  treaty 
with  the  whites  following  the 
battle,  was  maintained  in  the 
highest  sense  of  honor  by  Corn- 
stalk. 

In  the  spring  of  1777,  when 
the  great  Indian  uprising  was 
again  taking  place,  Cornstalk 
came  to  Fort  Randolph  at  Point 
Pleasant  to  warn  the  whites  of 
their  danger  and  was  retained 
as  a  hostage,  during  the  whole  of 
the  summer.  In  November,  his 
son,  Illinipsico,  came  in  search  of 
his  father,  hallooing  to  be 
brought  across  the  river.  The 
next  day  two  hunters  crossed 
the  Kanawha  and,  returning, 
one  was  killed  by  Indians. 
Some  of  the  whites  made  a  rush 
for  the  Indians  detained  at  the 
fort.  Captain  Arbuckle  in  com- 
mand tried  to  stay  them,  but 
incited  by  one  of  the  Gilmores 
whose  kindred  had  been  massa- 
cred at  Muddy  Creek,  Corn- 
stalk and  his  son,  Illinipsico  and 
Red  Hawk  were  murdered  in 
cold  blood,  by  Captain  James 
Hall  and  Hugh  Galbraith  leading 


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the  men.  The  bravery  of  Corn- 
stalk called  forth  the  admiration 
of  even  his  brutal  murderers,  as 
be^hus  addressed  Illinipsico. 

"My  Son,  the  Great  Spirit  has 
seen  fit  that  vfe  should  die  to- 
g-ether, and  has  sent  you  here  to 
that  end.  It  is  His  will  and  let 
us  submit;  it  is  all  for  the  best!" 
and  then  turning-  his  face  to  bis 
murderers  at  the  door,  he  fell 
without  a  groan  pierced  with 
seven  bullets." 

Cornstalk  said  the  day  before 
he  was  killed  while  attending  a 
conference  with  the  whites. 
"When  I  was  a  young  man  and 
went  to  war,  I  often  thought  each 
might  be  my  last  adventure,  and 
I  should  return  no  more.  I  still 
lived.  Now  I  am  in  the  midst  of 
you  and  if  you  choose  you  may 
kill  me.  I  can  die  but  once.  It 
is  alike  to  me  whether  now  or 
hereafter." 

From  the  records  of  Rock- 
bride  County  we  quote  the  fol- 
lowing. 

"At  a  court  held  in  Rockbridge 
County,  April  18,  1778,  for  the 
examination  of  Capt.  James  Hall 
and  Hugh  Gailbraith,  charged 
with  the  murder  of  Cornstalk,  no 
witnesses  appearing,  they  were 
acquitted  for  the  murder  of 
Cornstalk  and  two  other  Indians 
in  November,  1777,  they  denying 
their  guilt." 

The  remains  of  Cornstalk 
were  intered  at  Point  Pleasant 
outside  the  fort,  where  Viand 


intersects  with  First  Street,  but 
in  August  4,  1840,  when  Viand 
Street  was  opened,  his  remains 
were  removed  to  the  Court 
House  yard.  Dr.  Samuel  G. 
Shaw  made  a  memorandum  at 
the  time  of  his  burial.  His 
grave  is  thirty  yards  in  the  rear 
of  the  Court  House  where  the 
grave  is  neglected. 

On  October  13,  1899,  a  monu- 
ment to  Cornstalk  with  the  sim- 
ple inscription 

"CORNSTALK" 
was  erected  in  the  Court  House 
yard  near  Sixth  Street.  The 
monument  is  of  grey  limestone 
the  stone  for  which  was  donated 
by  Mr.  S.  H.  Reynolds,  then 
Superintendent  of-  Construction 
at  Kanawba  Lock  11.  The 
money  for  the  completion  of  the 
monument  was  raised  by  private 
subscription  and  the  dedication 
of  the  monument  was  the  occa- 
sion for  a  public  ceremonial  with 
a  dedicatory  address  by  Hon.  C. 
E.  Hogg,  Mayor  John  E.  Beller 
receiving  the  monument  for  the 
town. 

Forts   Blair,    Randolph    and    Point 
Pleasant. 

Govenor  Dunmore  under  date 
of  June  12,  1774,  directed  Gen'l. 
Andrew  Lewis  "to  collect  a  body 
of  men  immediately;  go  down  to 
the  mouth  of  the  Great  Kanaway 
and  THERE  BUILD  A  FORT; 
and  then  if  you  have  force 
enough  to  invade  the  Indian  Coun- 
try, do  so." 


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Before  these  orders  could  be 
carried  out  the  battle  of  Point 
Pleasant  had  ensued.  The 
wounded  of  the  army  must  be 
cared  for,  and  sufficient  of  the 
army  must  remain  to  protect 
and  care  for  them  while  the  ma- 
jority marched  on  with  Gen'l. 
Lewis  to  Camp  Charlotte. 

So  frail  was  the  hastily  impro- 
vised stockade  that  it  was  in- 
adequate to  withstand  an  attack 
but  fortunately  Capt.  Wm.  Rus- 
sell and  fifty  Fincastle  men  were 
delegated  by  General  Lewis  to 
return  to  Point  Pleasant  and 
erect  a  fort.  They  arrived 
there  November  11,  1774. 
Thus  Captain  Russell  be 
came  the  designer  and  builder 
of  this  small  rectangular  pallis- 
ade,  eighty  yards  long  with  block 
houses  at  two  corners  with  cab- 
ins for  barracks,  which  he  call 
ed  Fort  Blair.  It  was  erected 
upon  grounds  on  the  North  Bank 
of  the  Kanawha  as  it  emptied  in- 
to the  Ohio.  Here  in  January, 
1775,  Cornstalk  complying  with 
the  terms  of  the  treaty  at  Camp 
Charlotte  delivered  a  number  of 
white  prisoners. 

On  June  5,  1775,  Governor 
Dunmore  reported  that  the  gar- 
rison at  Point  Pleasant  had 
been  ordered  discontinued, 
but  the  Virginia  convention 
ordered  that  one  hundred 
men  should  be  hastened  to  Point 
Pleasant.  Upon  their  arrival 
they  found  Fort  Blair  in  ashes. 


By  whom  or  when  distroyed  his- 
tory does  not  record.  On  May, 
16,  1776,  Captain  Matthew  Ar 
buckle  passed  through  Wheel- 
ing enroute  to  Point  Pleasant 
where  upon  the  ruins  of  Fort 
Blair  he  erected  Fort  Ran- 
dolph. This  fort  was  much 
larger  than  Fort  Blair,  called 
Fort  Randolph  in  honor  of  Hon. 
Peyton  Randolph  of  Virginia. 
It  was  from  thence  garrisoned 
at  expense  of  the  colony  of  Vir- 
ginia Captain  Arbuckle  con- 
tinuing in  command  until  the 
close  of  1777.  He  was  succeed- 
ed in  command  by  Capt.  Wm. 
McKee  of  Rockbridge  County. 
In  1778  several  were  killed  by 
Indians  while  outside  the  fort 
at  work,  including  Lieut.  Moore. 
In  1779,  for  a  week  Indians  be- 
sieged the  fort  but  to  no  avail 
except  that  they  captured  all  the 
cattle.  In  1779  prior  to  July  12, 
Ft.  Randolph  was  evacuated  after 
which  it  was  burned  by  Indians. 
Capt.  Andrew  Lewis  visiting  at 
Point  Pleasant  in  1784  reported. 
There  was  then  but  little  or  no 
sign  of  the  fort  to  be  seen.  In 
1785  a  third  fort  was  built  at 
Point  Pleasant,  on  the  Ohio  Riv- 
er above  the  present  First  street. 
Commanded  by  Colonel  Thomas 
Lewis  and  from  that  year  on  the 
white  man  has  never  ceased  to 
reside  at  Point  Pleasant. 


Participants  of  the  Battle. 


1     official  roster  having  been  preserved  either  by  the  Government 

or  State,  the  following  list  has  been  gleaned  from  the  sources 

availabe  after   years    oi    research    by  the  writer 


Albe,  Jeremiah 

Adams,  John 

Adkins,   Parker 

Adkins,  Wilton 

Atkins,  Wm. 

Agnew,  (Aggnue),  John 

Alexander,  James  Ser. 

Allen,  James 

Allen,  Thomas 

Alley,  Thomas 

Alden,  Andrew 

Allen,  Hugh  Lieut. 

Allen,  James 

Alliet  (Elliot)  Robert 

Alsbury,  Thomas 

Arbuckle,  Capt.  Matthew  . 

Anderson,  James 

Anderson,  Samuel 

Andrews,  Samuel 

Arbuckle,  John 

Ard,  James. 

Arnold,  James 

Arnold,  Steven 

Armstrong,  Geo. 

Armstrong  Thos. 

Armstrong,  Wm, 

Arthur,  John 

Astle,  Samuel 

Atkins,  Blackburn 

Atkins,  Charles 

Atkins,  Henry 


Babbit,   Ishmael 
Baker,  Martin 
Barker,  Samuel 
Baker,  Thomas 
Baker,  Markham 
Baker,  Ensign  Samuel 
Baily,  John 
Bailey,  Campbell 
Ball,  James 
Baret,  Edward 
Barton,  Samuel 
Basel  John 
Barkly,  John 
Bambridge,  James 

Barnes,  

Barnett,  James 
Barnett,  S.  L. 

Bates, 

Ha  ugh,  Jacob 

Boylstone,  Wm. 

Bazel,  John 

Bellew,  Daniel  (Canoe  man) 

Bell,  Thomas 

Bergman,  Christian 

Berry,  Francis 

Bishop,  Levi 

Blackburn,  Arthur 

Blackford,  Joseph 

Blair,  Daniel 

Blair  Wm. 

Blankenship,  Richard 


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Bledsoe,  Abraham  Lieut. 

Blesly,  Jacob 

Blesly,  John 

Bojard,  Abraham 

Boh,  Adam 

Boh,  Jacob 

Boles,  John 

Boniface,  Wm. 

Borg,  Francis 

Bough  man,  John 

Boughman,  Jacobs 

Buruey,  Thomas 

Bowen,  Moses 

Bowen,  Reese 

Bowen,  Wm. 

Bowles, Sergt 

Bowles,  Kobt. 
Bowyer,  Henry 
Boyd,  James 
Boyd,  Kobert 
Boylstone 


Boyer,  Henry 

Boyles,  Barney 

Bracken,     Matthews    Ensign   & 

Lieut 

Bradley,  John 
Bradley,  Wm. 
Brambradge,  Jas. 
Bramstead,  Andrew 
Breckinridge,  Alexander 
Breden,  John 
Breeze,  Richard 
Bree/.e,  Robt. 
Bradley,  John 
Brooks  Geo. 
Brooks,  Thos. 
Brown,  Chas. 
Brown,  James 
Brown,  Low 
Brown,  Robt. 
Brown.  Wm. 
Brown,  Thos. 
Brumfield  Humphrey 
Brumfield,  Solomon 
Brumley,  Thos.     , 
BryansSborgan 
Bryans,  Wm.  Sergt. 
Bryant,  Wm. 

Buchanan  (Commissariat) 
Buchanan  Col.  John 


Buchanan,  Ensign  Wm. 
Buford,  Col.  Abraham 
Bunch,  Joseph 
Buchnell,  John 
Burch,  Richard 
Burcks,  Samuel 
Burk,  Thos. 
Burk,  John 
Burnes,  Thos. 
Burnsides,  James 
Burrens,  Jarnes 
Burroughs  John 
Burton,  Litton 
Burtchfield,  James 
Buch,  Sergt.  John 
Buch,  Wm. 
Buster,  David 
Butler,   Joseph 
Butl&r,  Shabrick 
Byrd,  Richard 
Byrne,  Chas 

Galloway.  Dudley 
Cameron,  Geo. 
Cameron,   Hugh 
Campbell,  Arthur  Maj. 
Campbell,  John  Capt. 
Campbell,  Robt. 
Campbell  Joseph 
Campbell,  Samuel 
Campbell,  Wm.  Capt. 
Canady,  Thos. 
Caperton,  Adam 
Caperton,  Hugh 
Carlton,  James 
Carmack,  John 
Carney,  Martin 
Carpenter,  John 
Carpenter,  Jeremiah 
Carpenter  Solomon 
Carpenter,  Thomas 
Carr,  Geo. 
Carr,  John 
Carr,   Wm. 
Cartain,  James 
Cariain,  Joel 
Cartain.  John- 
Carter,  John 
Carther,  Edward 
Gary,  Jeremiah 


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Casey,  Wm. 

Cashady,  Simon 

Cashaday,  Thos. 

Catron,  Adam 

Catron,  Francis 

Catron,  Jacob 

Calron,   Michael 

Catron,  Peter 

Catron,  Philip 

Cats,  Roger 

Cattes,  John 

Cavenaugh,  Charles 

Cavenaugh,  Philemon 

Cavenaugh,  Philip 

Cavenaugh  Wm. 

Cecil,  Saul 

Champ,  Wm. 

Chaplme,   Abraham 

Chapman,  John 

Chapman.   Richard 

Chesney,  John 

Charlton  James 

Christian,  Col   Wm. 

Clark,  John 

Clark,  James 

Clark,  Samuel 

Clay,  Mitchell 

Clay,  Zekel 

Clay,  David 

CJendinen  Adam 

Clendinen,  Alexander 

Clendinen  Chas. 

Clendinen  Geo. 

Clendinen,  Robert 

Clendinen,  Wm. 

Clerk,  John 

Clifton,  Wm. 

Clinding,  Wm. 

Clinding,  Geo. 

Cloyne  Nicholas 

Cochran,  Wm. 

Cocke,   Capt.  Wm. 

Coile,  James 

Coller,  John 

Coller,  Moses  Sergt. 

Collet,  Thos. 

Collins,  Richard 

Condon,  David  (canoe  man) 

Conner,  Patrick 

Conner,  Wm. 


Constantine  Patrick 
Cook,  David 
Cook,  Henry 
Cook,  John 
Cook,   Wm. 
Cooper,  Abraham 
Cooper,  Fiancis 
Cooper  Leonard 
Cooper  Nathiel 
Cooper,  Spencer 
Cooper,  Thomas 
Copley,  Thos. 
Cornwell,  Adam 
Corder,  John 
Cormick,  John 
Cornwell,  Adam 
Cornwell,  John 
Courtney,  Chas. 
Courtney,  John 
Cowan,  Jared 
Cowan,  John 

Coward 

Cox,    Lieut,  Gabriel 
Cox,    Capt.  John 
Coyl,  James 
Crabtree,  Wm.  (scout) 
Craig-,  George 
Craig,  John 
Craig  Wm.  Serg- 
Grain,  John 
Craven,  Joseph  Serg. 
Cravens,  James 
Cravens,  John 
Cravens,  Robt. 
Crockett,  Capt.  Walter 
Crawford,    Bonard 
Crawford,  John  Serg. 
Crawley;   (Croley)  James 
Creed,  Matthew 
Crisman,  Isaac 
Crockett,  Joseph 
Croley,  Samuel 
Crow,  John  Serg. 
Crow,  Wm. 
Curwell,  Alexander 
Cummins,  Geo. 
Cundiff,  Johnatban  Ensign 
Cunningham  James 
Cunningham  John 
Current.  Joseph 


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Curry,  James,  Capt. 
Custer,  Wm. 
Cutlep,  David 
Outright,   John 
Culwell   Alexander 

Dale,  James 

Davis.  Capt.  Azariah 

Davis,  Charles 

Davis,  Geo. 

Davis,  Robert  (scout) 

Davis,  Samuel 

Davise,  Johnathen 

Day,  Joseph 

Day,  Wm. 

Deal,  Wm. 

Deck,  John 

Demonse,  Abraham 

Denistun,  John 

Denton,  John 

Dickinson,  Col.  John 

Dillon, Lieut. 

Dingos.  Peter 
Divev,  John 
Doack,  Robt.  Capt. 
Doack,  David 
Doack,  Samuel 
Doack,  Wm.  Ensign 
Dobler,  Jacob 
Dodd,  John 
Dodd,  James 
Dorherty,  John 
Dorhertv  James 
Dollarhide  Samuel 
Donaley,  Serg.  Jame's 
Donaley,  John  (fifer) 
Donalson,  Col.  John 
Donalson,  Robt. 
Donalson,  Thos. 
Donley,  Jacob 
Dooley,  Thos.  Lieut. 
Doran,  Patrick 
Doss,  Joel 

Daugherty,  Geo.  Serg. 
Daugherty,  James 
Daugherty  John 
Daugherty,    Michael,  Serg. 
Douglas  Geo. 
Douglas,    James 
Downy,  James  Serg. 


Downy,  John 
Drake,  Joseph 
Drake,  Ephriam 
Draper  Lieut.  John 
Dulin,  James 
Duncan,  John  Serg. 
Dunkirk,  John  Serg. 
Dunlap,  Robert 
Dunn,  John 
Dunowho,  James 
Duttsn,  Philip 
Dyer,  Wm. 

Eager,  John 

Eastbam,  Wm. 

Eastham,  Geo. 

Edgar,  Thos. 

Edmiston     (Edmondson)      Wm. 

Lieut. 

Edward,    James 
Edwards,   Johnathan 
Egnis,  Edward 
Elkins,  Jesse 
Ellenborough,  Peter 
Elias,    Thomas 
Elliott  Capt.  Robert 
Ellison,  James 
Ellison,  Charles 
Elswick.  John 
English,  Joseph 
English,  Joshua 
English,  Stephen 
Estill,  Samuel 
Evans,  Evan 
Evans,  Andrew 
Ewing,  Alexander 
Ewing,  -         — Jr. 
Ewing,  Robert 
Ewing  Samuel 
Ewing,  Wm.  Serg.  &  Maj. 

Fain,  John 
Fain,  Samuel 
Fargison,  Thos. 
Farley  (Farlen)  Francis 

Farley, John 

Farley   (Farlor)  Thomas 
Farmer.  Nathan 
Feavil,  Wm. 
Ferrill,  Robt. 


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Ferrill,   Wm. 

Field,  Col.  John 

Fields,  Wm. 

Fielder,  John  Serg. 

Fielder,  Wm. 

Fenquay,  Isham(canoe  man) 

Findlay,  Geo. 

Find  lay,  John 

Fendlay,  Robt.   Serg. 

Fisher,  Isaac 

Fitzhugb,    John 

Fitspatrick,  Timothy 

Fleming,    Col  Wm. 

Flintham,  John 

Fliping,  Thos. 

Floyd,  John 

Fourgeson,Thos. 

Fowler,  Jas.  (scout) 

Fowler,    Samuel 

Fowler,  Wm. 

Franklin,  James 

Franklin,  Wm. 

Frazer,  John 

Freeland,  John 

Friel,  Jeremiah 

Frogg,  Lieut.  John 

Fry,  Geo. 

Fry,  Geo.  Jr. 

Fry,  John 

Fullen,  Chas. 

Fullen,  James 

Fullen,  Daniel 

Fuls,  Geo. 

Gardner,  Andrew 
Garrett,  Wm. 
Gass,  David    (Messenger) 
Gatliff  (Gatkpp)  Squire 
Gibbs,  Luman 
Gibson,  Joseph 
Gilberts,    Thos. 
Gillihan  (Gilliland)  John 
Gilkenson,  Jas. 
Gill,  Prisley 
Gillespy,  Thos. 
Gillass,  Wm. 
Gillman  Duncan 
Gilmore,  John 
Gilmore,Capt.  Jas. 
Givens,  Lieut. 


Glascum,    David 

Glass,   Serg.  Samuel 

Glass  Wm. 

Glaves,    Michael 

Glenn,  Davis 

Goff,  Andrew 

Goldman,  Lieut.  Edward 

Goldsby 

Goodall,  John 
Gordan,  Moses 
Gorman,  David 
Graham,  Benj. 
Green,  John 
Griffin,  Robt. 
Grigger,  Michael 
Grigger,  Peter 
Grigs,  John 
Grimp,  John 

Grigsby 

Guffy,  James 
Guillen,  Edward  James 
Gullion,  Barney 
Gurden,  Michael 

Hackett,  Thos. 
Hackworth,  Augustine 
Hackworth  Wm 
Haines,  Lewis 
Hale,  Edward 
Hale,  Thomas 
Hale,  Wm 
Hall,  James 
Hall,  Thos. 
Hamilton,  Francis 
Hamilton  Isaiah 
Hamilton,  Jacob 
Hamilton,  Jas. 
Hamilton,  John 
Hamilton  Thos. 
Hammond,  Philip 
Hamrick,  Thos. 
Hamrick,   Wm. 
Handley    (Herrill)  Robt. 
Handley    (Hensley)  Sam'l 
Hanee,  Philip 
Hansburger,  Adam 
Hanson  Wm. 
Harlan  Elijah 
Harlan,  Silas 
Harmon,  Dangerfield 


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Harmon,  Geo. 
Harmon,  Israel 
Harmon,  John 
Harrel,  Wm.  (scout) 
Harriman,  Skid  Serg. 
Harris    Griffin 
Harris,  John 
Harris,  Stephen 
Harrison,  Andrew- 
Harrison,    Benj.Capt. 
Harrison,  John  Lieut. 
Harrod,  James  Capt. 
Hart,  Thos. 
Hasket,  Thos. 
Hatfield  Andrew 
Havens,  John 
Havens  James 
Hayes,  John 
Hay nes,  Benj. 
Haynes,  Capt.  Joseph 
Hays,  Chas. 
Henly,  Geo. 
Henly,  Wm. 

Hensley  (Hadley)  Sam'l 
Herbert  Wm.  Capt. 
Herd  Richard 
Herrill,  Robt. 
Henderson  Sam1 1 
Hendrix,  Peter 
Henderson,  Lieut.  John 
Henderson  Daniel 
Henderson,  Alexander 
Hays,  Samuel  (scout)  • 

Head,  Anthony  (Messenger) 
Hedden,  Thos. 
Hedrick,  Peter 

Hepenstahl  (Hempinstall)  Abra- 
ham 

Hckman 

Higgans   (Higans)  Peter 
Higgans,  Philemion 

Hill,  Capt. 

Hill  James 

Hill,  Robert 

Hobbs,  Vincent 

Hogan,  Henry 

Hogan,  Win. 

Holley,  Wm. 

Hollway  (Holloway)  Richard 

Holston,  Stephen 


Hoi  well,  Walter 

Homes,  Lewis 

Hooper,  Wm. 

Hopton,  Stephen 

Hopton,  Wm. 

Home,  Joseph 

Howard,  Charles 

Howard,  Henry 

Hutchinson,  Lewis 

Huchisen  (Hutchinson)  Wm. 

Huff.  Leonard 

Huff,  Peter 

Huff.  Samuel 

Huff,  Thomas 

Hughes,  Davy 

Hughes,  Kl\is 

Hughey,  Joseph 

Humphries,  John 

Hundley,  John 

Hunter,  Robert 

Hutson,  John 

Hynes.  Frances 

Ingles,  Wm.  Major(Commissary) 

Inglis,  Joshua 

Inglis,  Thos. 

Inglish  (English)  Joseph 

Irvine,  John 

Inglish  (English)  Joshua 

Isum,  Wm. 

Jackson,  Yerty 
Jameson,  John 
Jenkins,  Jeremiah 
Jennings,  Edmond 
Jewitt,  Matthew 
Johns,  Wm. 
Johnson  Capt.  Arthur 
Johnston,  John 
Johnston,  Patrick 
Jones,  Benj. 
Jones,  John 
Jones,  Thos. 
Jones,  Wm. 

Kasheday,  Peter 
Keeneson,  Charles 
Keith,  Samuel 
Kelley,  Alexander 
Kelsey,  John 
Kendrick,  James 


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Kennedy,  Ezekiel 
Kennedy,  Thomas 
Kennedy,  Win.  Serg. 
Kenneson,  Cbas. 
Kenneson,  Edward 
Kennot,  Zacariah 
Kerr,  James 
Kerr.  Wm 
Kinder,  George 
Kinder,  Jacob. 
Kinder,  Peter 
King1,  James 
King-,  John 
King,  Wm. 

Kincaid  (Kingkeid)  David 
Kincaid  "      Jr. 

Kincaid  Geo. 

Kincaid  James 

Kincaid         '*         John  Serg. 
Kinsor,  Cbas. 
Kinsor  Michael 
Kinsor,  Jacob 
Kinsor,  Walter 
Kishoner,  Andrew  Jr. 
Kishoner,  Andrew  Sr. 
Kissinger,  An3re>v 
Kissinger,  Matthew 
Knox,  James 

Lammey,  Andrew 

Lapsley,  John  % 

Larken,  John  Serg-. 

Lashly,  John 

Laughlin.  James 

Lawrence.  Henry 

Lee,  Sefinah 

Learned  (Lord)  Lieut. 

Lee,  Zacarias 

Lemaster,  Richard 

Lesley  Wm. 

Lesley,  John 

Lesley,  Wm.  Adj. 

Lester,  Samuel 

Lester,  John 

Lewis,  Andrew  Gen. 

Lewis.  Benjamin 

Lewis,  Chas.  Col. 

Lewis,  John  Capt.  of  Augusta 

Lewis.  John  Capt.  of  Botetourt 

Lewis,  John  Private 


Lewis,  Samuel 

Lin,  Adam 

Librougb,  Henry 

Litton,  Burton 

Litton,  Solomon 

Litz,  Wm. 

Lockhart,  Jacob 

Lockhart,  Queavy 

Lockridge,  Andrew  Capt. 

Logan,  Ben). 

Logan, John 

Logan,  Hugh 

Logan,  James 

Long,  Joseph  Ensign 

Lord  (Leord)  Lieut 

Love,  Joseph 

Love,  Philip  Capt.* 

Luallen,  Thos. 

Lucas,  Chas. 

Lucas,  Chas.  Jr. 

Lucas,  Henry. 

Lucas,  John 

Lucas,  Wm. 

Luney.  Michael 

Ly  brook  (Librough)  Henry 

Ly brook  Palser 

Lyman,  Richard 

Lyle,  John 

Lyn,  James 

Lynch, 

Lyons,   Wm. 

McAllister,  Wm. 
McBride,  James 
McBride,  Joseph 
McCallister,  James 
McCallister  Wm. 
McCandless,  John 
McCartney,  John 
McCastem,  Wm. 
McCarty,  James 
McClanahan,  Absalom 
McClanahan,  Alexander,  Capt. 
McClanaham,   John,  (Canoeman) 
McClanahan,  Robt.  Capt. 
McAfee,  Geo. 
McAfee,  James 
McAfee,  Robt. 
McAfee,  Samuel 
McAfee,  Wm. 


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McCJintic,  Wm. 
McClure,  John 
McClure,  Tfiomas 
McCorkle,  Wm. 
McCoy,  Wrn.  Lieut 
McCune,  Wm. 
McCutchen,  Wm. 
McDonald,  Daniel 
McDonald,  James 
McDowell.  Archibald 
McDowell,  M.  Capt. 
McDowell,  Samuel  Capt. 
McElhanev,  Francis 
McFarland,  Wm. 
Me  Far  land,  Robt. 
McGee,  John 
McGeehey,  Samuel 
McGinness,  John 
McGlahlen,  John 
McGuff,  John 
McGuff,  Patrick 
McKee,  Wm.  Capt. 
McKinnett.  Alex 
McKinney,  John 
McKinsey,  Hensley 
McKinsey,  Moredock 
McLaughlin,  Edward 
McMullin,  John 
McMullcn,  Wm. 
McNiel,  Pfter 
McNeal  (Niel)  John 
McNiell,  Daniel  Lieut 
McNutt,  James 
McNutt,  Alexander 
Madison,  John 

Monad ue,  Henry 
Mann,  John 
Mann,  Wm. 
Marks,  John 
Martin,  Brice 
Martin,  Christian 
Martin,  Geo.  Sr. 
Martin,  Geo.  Jr. 
Martin,  Philip 
Martin,  Wm    Col. 
Matthew  Capt.  Geo. 
Matthew,  Sampson 
Maxwell,  Bezaleel 
Maxwell,  David 


Maxwell,  John 

Maxwell,  Thomas 

Mayse,  Joseph 

Mead,  Nicholas 

Mead,  Thos. 

Meader,  Israel 

Mecrary,  Thomas 

Meek,  Wm. 

Messersnuth,  Barnctt 

Messersnuth,  John 

Micalister,  Wm 

Milican,  John 

Miller,  James 

Miller,  Robert 

Mills,  John 

Mil  wood,  Geo. 

Miner,  Henry 

Mitchell,  James  Capt. 

Mitchell,  James 

Mitchell,  Thos. 

Moffat  (Manford)  Robt.  Capt. 

MofFat,  George  Capt. 

Montgomery,  Jas.  Capt. 

Montgomery,  Samuel 

Moodr,  John 

Moon,  Abraham 

Moor,  Moses 

Moor,  Frederick 

Moor,  Wm. 

Moor,  John 

Moor,  Hugh 

Mooney,  Nicholas 

Mooney,  Frederick 

Mooney,  Hendly  Ensign 

Mooney,  Hugh 

Mooney,  James 

Mooney,  John 

M^oney,  Moses 

Mooney,  Samuel 

Mooney,  Wm. 

Morris,  Wm. 

Morrow,  James 

Morrow,  James  Jr. 

Mullin,  Thos. 

Mungle  (Mongle)  Daniel 

Mungle         "         Frederick 

Murry,  John  Capt. 

Murry,  James 

Myers,  Wm. 

Mercer,  Hugh 


Nail,  Dennis 
Nail,  Thomas 
Nalle,  Martin  Lieut 
Nail,  Thomas 
Naul  (Novvl)  Wm.  Capt. 
Nave,  Conrad 
Neal  Wm. 
Neaville,  John 
Neaville,  Joseph 
Neely  James  (Cadet) 
Neely,  Wm. 
Neil,  John 
Nelson,  John 
Newberry,  Joseph 
Newell,  James 
Newland,  Abraham 
Newland,  Isaac 
Newland,  John 
Newman,  Walter 
Nicholas,  John 
Nickels,  Isaac 
No  well,  John 
Noland,  John 
Null,  Jacob 
Null,  John 

Odear,  James 
Oguillen,  Barnett 
Oguillen,  Duncan 
Oguillen,  John 
Oguillen,  Hugh 
O'Haara,  Chas.  Capt. 
O'Haara,  Robt. 
O'Haara,  Wm. 
Qharron,  Henry 
Olverson,  Joseph 
Ormsbey,  Daniel 
Overstreet,  Wm. 
Ower,  Thomas 
Owen,  Robt. 
Owens,  David 
Owler,  Henry 
Ovvler,  John 

Pack,  George 
Pack,  Samuel 
Packwood,  Richard 
Pain,  Joseph 
Parchment.  Peter 
Parsons,  James 


Pate  Jeremiah 

Patten,  John 

Pauling,  Henry  Capt. 

Paulley,  James 

Paulley,  John 

Pawlings,  Moses 

Paxton,  Samuel 

Peary,  Thomas 

Pence,  Jacob  Ensign 

Perce,  Thomas 

Peregin,  Molastin 

Persinger,  Jacob 

Pettv,  Benjamin 

Peyton,  John 

Peyton,  Rowzie 

Pharis,  Wm. 

Pierce,  Lieut 

Pierce,  John 

Plunkenpel,  Zacarias 

Poage,  Wm.  Serg. 

Poling,  Mathew. 

Portor,  Robl. 

Posey,  Thos.  (Commissary) 

Potter,  Thos. 

Preston,  Wm. 

Price,  Jarnes 

Price,  Reese 

Price,  Rickard 

Price,  Thomas 

Price,  Wm. 

Pricket  (Pucket)  Drury 

Priest,  David 

Priest,  Samuel 

Priest,  Wm. 

Pright,  John 

Prince,  Wm. 

Prior  (Pryor)  John 

Ranis,  Robert 
Ramsey,  Josiah 
Rains,  Robt. 
Rapp,  Frederick 
Katcliff,  Wm. 
Ratcliff,  Matthew 
Razor,  Michael 
Ray,  Wm. 
Ravenscroft,  Thos. 
Read,  John  Ensign 
Reagh,  Archibald 
Reagh,  John 


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Reary,  James 
Keburn,  John 
Rediford.  Benj. 
Reed,  Alexander 
Reese,  Andrew 
Reid,  Andrew 
Reid,  Thos. 
Reynolds,  John 
Richardson,  Benj. 
Richardson,  Wra. 
Riley,  John 
Roay,  Joseph 
Roberts,  John 
Robinson,  Elijah 
Robertson,  Jas.  Capt. 
Robertson,  Wm.  Lieut 
Robinson,  Hugh 
Robinson,  John 
Robertson,  Jauies 
Robertson,  Thos.  Major 
Robertson,  Wm. 
Robison,  Jas.  Lieut. 
Robison,  Julius 
Robison,  Wm. 
Robison,  Isaac 
Roay,  Joseph 
Roe,  -     —Capt. 
Rogers  (Rodgers)   Andrew 
Roger,  Chesley 

Rogers,  David 

Rogers,  James 

Rogers,         "        Thos. 
Rogers,  Wm. 

Rollens,  Richard 
Ross,  Edward 
Ross.  Tavener 
Rowan,  Francis 
Rucker,  Geo. 
Ruddle,  (Ri'ddle)  Geo. 
Rue,  Abraham 
Russell,  Wm.  Gen. 
Rutheford,  Benj. 

Samples,  Samuel 
Sanders,  James 
Sappington,  Daniel 
Salsbury,  Wm. 
Savage,  John 
Savage,  Samuel 
Sawyers,  John  Col. 


Sayres,  John 
Scails,  Wm. 
Scard, —  — Lieut. 
Scarbara,  James 
Scott,  Archelaus 
Scott,  Archibald 
Scott,  Daniel  Capt. 
Scott  Geo. 
Scott,  James 
Scott,  Wm. 
See,  Michael 
Sedbery,  John 
Seed,  Francis 
Selby,  James 
Sevier,  John  Gen. 
Sevier,  Valentine 
Shain,  John     . 
Shannon,  John 
Shannon,  Samuel 
Sharp,  Abraham 
Sharp,  John  (.Scout) 
Sharp,  Edward 
Shaw,  Henry 
Shelby,  Evan  Capt. 
Shelby,  Isaac  Lieut. 
Shelby,  James 
Shelby,  Wm.  Capt. 
Shell,  Arnold 
Shelp,  John 
Shillin,  John 
Shoatt,  Emanuel 
Simpkins,  Daniel 
Simpkins,  James 
Simms,  Chas.  " 
Simmerman,  Geo. 
Simpson,  James 
Simpson,  John 
Simpson,  Wm. 
Skaggs,  Reuben 
Skaggs,  Zach 
Skidmore,  John  Capt. 

Slaughter, Capt. 

Slaughter,  Francis  Col. 
Slaughter,  Geo.  Col. 
Slaughter,  Lawrence 
Smith,  Bruten 
Smith,  David 
Smith,  Daniel  Capt. 
Smith,  Edward 
Smith,  Ericus 


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Smith,  James 
Smith,  John 
Smith,  Mecagh 
Smith,  Moses 
Smith.  Robt. 
Smith,  Wm. 
Smithers,  Gabriel 
Sobe,  Geo. 
Spicer,  Wm. 
Spratt,  Isaac  Serg. 
Squires,  Uriah 
Staffy,  Michael 
Stailey,  Martin 
Steele,  Andrew 
Steele,  John 
Stephens,  John  Lieut 
Stephens,  Thomas 
Stephens,  Wm. 
Stephens,  Stephen 
Stephenson.  Hugh  Capt. 
Stephenson,  Robt. 
Sterns,  Conrad 

Stevens, 

Steward,  John 
Steward,  Walter 
Stewart,  John 
Stewart,  Wm. 
Stewart,  John  Capt. 
Stull,  Martin 
Stump,  Michael 
Sullivan,  James 
Sullivan,  Sam'l 
Summers,  Charles 
Swoop,  John 

Tate,  T.  Lieut. 

Tate,  Wm. 

Tarney  (Farney)  Peter 

Taylor, Capt. 

Taylor,  Daniel 

Taylor,  Isaac 

Taylor,  Sieltor 

Taylor,  Wm. 

Teasy,  Wm. 

Terrence  (Torrence)  Andrw 

Thomas,  Edward 

Thompson,  Andrew  Ensign 

Thompson,  Richard 

Thompson,  Robert 

Thompson,  Wm. 


Tipton,  John 
Todd,  James 
Todd,  John 
Trent, 


(Canoe  Master.) 


Trent,  Obediah 
Trimble,  Isaac 
Trimble,  James 
Trotter,  John 
Trotter,  Richard 
Tucker,  Wm. 
Tyler,  Isaac 

Vails,  John 
Vallendingham,  Geo. 
VanBibber,  Isaac 
VanBibber,  Jesse 
VanBibber,  John 
VanBibber.  Peter 
VanBibber,  Mathias 
Vance,  Edward 
Vance,  Samuel  Lieut. 
Vanhook.  Samuel 
Vaut  (Vaught)  Andrew 
Vaut  Christian 

Vaut  Geo. 

Venable,  Wm. 
Vaughan  (Vaun) John 
Vanhook,  Samuel 

Wag-g-oner,  Andrew 
Waggoner,  Henry 
Waggoner,  Henry  Jr. 
Walker,  Adam 
Walker,  Henry 
Walker,  James 
Wallace,  Adam  Ensign 
Wallace,  Andrew 
Wallace,  David 
Wallace  Robt. 
Wallace,  Samuel  Lieut. 
Walter,  Michael 
Wambler,  Geo. 
Wambler,  Mitchell 
Ward,  David  Ensign 
Ward,  James  Capt. 
Ward,  Wm.  Serg. 
Warwick,  Jacob 
Washburn,  James 
Washburn,  Steven 
Watkins,  Robt. 


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Weaver,  Christian 
Weaver,  Michael 
Welch,  James 
Welch,  John 
Welch,  Thomas 
Welch,  Thomas  Jr. 
Wells,  Bazaleel 
Wells,  Samuel 
Welsh,  Christopher 
Whish,  Richard 
Wet/el,  John 
Wetzel,  Martin 
Whitley,  Moses 
White,  Davfd 
White,  Joseph 
White.  Solomon 
White,  Wm. 
Whitticor,  Joseph 
Whitton,  Jerremiah 
Whitton,  Thomas 
Whitton,  Thomas  Jr. 
Wiley  James 
Wiles,  Robert 
Wiley,  Robert  Jr. 
Wiley,  Thomas 
Williams,  Alden 
Williams,  David 
Williams,  Isaac 
Williams,  James 
Williams,  Jarrett 
Williams,  John 
Williams,  Mack 
Williams,  Philip 
Williams,  Richard 
Williams,  Rowland 
Williams  Samuel 
Williams,  Thomas  Serg1. 
Williamson,  Aldin 
Williamson,  David 
Willis,  Henry, 
Wilmoth,  Wm. 
Wilson,  Beni. 
Wilson,  Edwaad 
Wilson,  James 
Wilson,  John  Capt. 
Wilson,  Georg-e 
Wilson,  Thomas 
Wilson,  Wm.  Serg-. 


Wilson,   Samuel    Capt. 
Wood,  John 
Wood,  Adam 
Wood,  Andrew 
Wood,  Archibald 
Wood,  James  Serg. 
Wood,  Jos.  Capt. 
Wood,  Michael  Capt. 
Wood,  Richard 
Woolsey,  Richard 
Workman,  Daniel 
Wood  burn,  Steven 
Woodburn,  James 

Young-,  John 

History  of  the  Monument  Building 

In  our  research  for  informa- 
tion relative  to  efforts  being- 
made  to  erect  a  battle  monument 
at  Point  Pleasant,  the  earliest 
record  of  which  we  have  an  ac- 
count is  a  letter  yet  preserved, 
written  by  Hon.  J.  M.  H.  Beale, 
who,  in  18-18,  represented  that 
district  of  which  Mason  County, 
Virginia,  was  a  part,  in  the  lower 
branch  of  Congress,  in  which  he 
says  "I  have  introduced  a  bill 
in  Congress  asking  for  $50,000 
with  which  to  erect  a  monument 
to  commemorate  the  Battle  ot 
Point  Pleasant."  As  nothing 
came  of  it,  it  died  in  a  commitee 
room. 

That  amount  of  money  in  pur- 
chasing power,  equal  in  value  to 
twice  that  amount  of  money  at 
the  present  time,  only  demon- 
strated the  magnitude  in  which 
the  battle  was  held  when  not  so 
many  years  had  intervened  since 
that  terrible  struggle. 

We  find  by  reference  to  an  old 
minute  book  preserved  by  Mrs' 


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John  Daniel  McCulloch,  that  a 
monument  committee  had  been 
organized  in  the  year  1860.  The 
exact  date  of  organization  is  not 
given.  The  first  meeting  record- 
ed is  as  follows: 

"Monument  Association    Rooms 
Sep.  17,  1860. 

The  Regent  being  absent, 
Mrs.  James  Hutchinson,  Vice 
Regent,  called  the  association  to 
order. 

On  motion  the  minutes  of  the 
last  meeting  was  suspended." 

"The  committee  on  By  Laws 
reported  series  of  laws  by  Mrs. 
Wm.  Smith,  Chair  lady,  &  under 
discussion  said  By  laws  were 
adopted, &  on  motion  the  com- 
mittee was  discharged." 

"On  mot  on  a  permanent  com- 
mitee  composed  of  Mrs.  Charles 
Lewis,  Mrs.  Barlow,  Miss  Sallie 
Henderson,  Miss  Kimberling, 
Miss  Till  Stribling,  Miss  Sue 
Waggoner  to  collect  historical 
facts  connected  with  the  battle 
of  Point  Pleasant. 

"On  motion  of  Mrs.  Smith,  it 
is  resolved  this  association  will 
celebrate  the  anniversary  of  the 
battle,  10th  of  October. 

"On  motion  it  is  resolved  com- 
mittee be  appointed  to  see  what 
will  be  contributed  for  a  supper. 

"On  motion  a  committee  com- 
posed of  Sallie  Lewis,  Fannie, 
for  the  Flats,  Miss  Patrick,  Sehon 
for  Mason  City,  Miss  Stribling 
&  Hall,  upper  part  of  town,  Miss 
Jones  &  Miss  Murdock  lower 


end,  Sallie  Henderson  and  E. 
Smith,  South  Side  Kanawha, 
Ginnie  Neale&  Maria  Menager, 
Mercer  Bottom. 

"On  motion  it    is    resolved    a 
committee  of  two    be    appointed 
to  wait  on  Col.  Beale,    &    see    if. 
we  can  procure  the  Hall. 
Signed,  E.  Smith 

Recording  Secretary 
M.  T.  Lewis  Regent 

Nov.  14-1860" 

There  is  left  no  written  record 
of  that  supper  given  at  Beal's 
Hall,  but  there  are  many  living 
here  yet  who  recall  it  as  one  of 
the  greatest  social  events  of  the 
town  up  until  that  time,  as  there 
was  gathered  here  all  of  the  elite 
of  the  county.  The  money 
raised  at  that  time  by  the  supper 
was  about  $200.00,  'which  was 
supplemeated  by  $800,00  more 
in  subscriptions,  Mrs.  John  S. 
Lewis  (Mrs.  Mary  T.  Lewis) 
the  Regent  riding  horseback 
over  the  county  soliciting  funds, 

The  society  applied  fora  char- 
ter which  was  granted  under 
the  laws  of  the  State  of  Virginia. 
The  money  war.  loaned  to  Mr. 
Peter  Steenbergen  Lewis,  a 
descendant  of  Col.  Charles  Lewis 
killed  in  the  battle,  and  was 
faithfully  accounted  for  and  in- 
terest paid  until  turned  over  to 
the  Point  Pleasant  Battle  Monu- 
ment commission  provided  for 
in  1901,  by  the  State  of  West 
Virginia. 

The  only  two    surviving  char- 


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ter  members  of  the  original 
monument  association  are  Miss 
Elizabeth  Smith,  of  McCaus-land, 
and  Mrs.  J.  D.  McCulloch  (Miss 
Sallie  Lewis)  of  Point  P4easant. 

We  find  in  the  above  mentioned 
record  book  the  following-  entry: 

"Monument  Association  Room. 
Nov.  14,  1860. 

The  Regent, having  called  the 
meeting  to  order  on  motion  of 
E.  Smith,  the  historical  com- 
mittee is  requested  to  wait  upon, 
or  otherwise  communicate  with 
all  the  early  settlers  of  the  coun- 
ty, that  is  practicable,  to  obtain 
all  the  information  they  can  in 
regard  to  the  battle  of  the  Point, 
and  all  other  interesting  events 
of  the  early  Indian  times. 

On  motion  it  is  resolved,  the 
monument  be  placed  on  the  spot 
where  the  brave  men  who  fell  in 
the  battle  have  so  long  lain  un- 
honored,  by  vote  was  unanimous- 
ly carried — affirmative  Nannie 
Smith,  Kate  Murdock,  Sallie 
Lewis,  Sallie  Henderson,  M.  J. 
Stribling,  Ginnie  Neale,  Rose 
Barlow,  Fannie  Lewis,  Eliza 
Waggoner,  E.  Smith — Negative. 

"On  motion  it  is  resolved  a  fine 
of  five  cents  be  imposed  on  those 
who  are  not  present  by  half  after 
two  o'clock,  P.  M. 

"On  motion  it  is  resolved  that 
this  meeting  adjourn  to  meet 
the  first  Wednesday  in  January." 

it  is  well  that  the  names  of 
these  patriotic  women  have  been 
preserved  to  history,  many  of 


whom  were  descendants  of  par- 
ticipants in  the  battle.  Sallie 
Lewis  (Mrs.  J.  D.  McCulloch) 
descended  from  Col.  C  h  a  r  1  e  s 
Lewis;  Sallie  Henderson,  the  late 
Mrs.  Jos.  George,  of  Five  Mile, 
descended  from  Samuel  Hender- 
son; Misses  Sue  and  Eliza  Wag- 
goner descended  from  Gen.  An- 
drew Lewis;  Mrs.  Charles  Lewis 
was  the  mother  of  Mr.  P.  S. 
Lewis,  a  descendant  to  whom 
the  first  funds  were  entrusted; 
Mrs.  Kimberling  was  the  wife 
of  Elijah  Kimberling,  for  many 
years  clerk  of  the  county  court; 
Fannie  Lewis,  wife  of  Judge 
John  W.  English,  descended 
from  Col.  Charles  Lewis,  as  did 
Miss  Lizzie  Sehon,  of  Mason  City; 
Miss  Hall  was  the  late  Mrs.  B.  J. 
Redmond,  daughter  of  Hon. 
John  Hall;  Miss  Jones  is  Mrs. 
J.  W.  Bryan;  Maria  Menger  be- 
came the  wife  of  Rev.  George 
Lyle;  Miss  Till  Stribling  became 
the  wife  of  Mr.  Chap.  Waggoner 
of  Pleasant  Flats:  Mrs.  Rose 
Barlow  was  the  wife  of  a  resi- 
dent physican;  Miss  Kate 
(Beale)  Murdock  was  the  second 
wife  of  the  late  Col.  C.  B.  Wag- 
goner, Ginnie  Neale  now  Mrs. 
Otis  Stribling. 

The  Civil  War  breaking  out, 
the  efforts  to  erect  a  monument 
were  put  aside  for  the  stirring 
incidents  then  agitating  the 
minds  of  the  people  and  no  efforts 
were  again  made  until  the  100th 
anniversary  of  the  Battle,  1874, 


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when  the  proper  celebration  of 
the  battle  was  taken  up  by 
Messrs.  John  Q.  Dickerson, 
John  D.  Lewis,  C.  C.  Lewis,  Wm. 
Dickenson,  of  Charleston,  P.  S. 
Lewis,  J.  P.  R.  B.  Smith,  Judge 
John  W.  English,  of  Point  Pleas- 
ant. These  largely  financed  the 
celebration  assisted  by  other  of 
the  most  patriotic  citizens  of 
Point  Pleasant  and  an  effort  was 
made  to  gather  together  as  many 
as  possible  of  the  descendents 
of  the  Lewis's  of  that  battle. 
In  "fact  so  little  attention  was 
paid  by  other  descendants  and 
so  highly  had  the  Lewis's  honor- 
ed the  services  of  their  sires 
that  the  proposed  monument 
was  spoken,  of  as  the  "Lewis 
Monument"  and,  for  years,  the 
writter,  who  was  present  at  that 
celebration,  scarcely  knew  there 
were  other  heroes  participating 
worthy  of  being-  published  in  the 
school  histories,  there  being  no 
available  books  to  be  read  and  no 
one  mentioned  by  word  of  mouth 
but  the  Lewis's. 

All  honor,  however,  to  this 
family  who  honor  their-  heroic 
dead.  It  was  the  most  splendid 
palm  they  could  place  upon  the 
brow  of  their  ancestors  to  teach 
the  world  as  they  have  done  their 
descendants  to  revere  the  names 
of  Andrew  and  Charles  Lewis. 

The  first  published  agitation 
for  the  proper  observance  of  the 
100th  anniversary  of  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant,  we  find  in  the 


Charleston  Courier,  reproduced 
in  the  Weekly  Register  of  March 
19,  1874,  which  we  quote  in  part: 
"It  was  at  this  place  that  oc- 
curred one  of  the  bloodiest  and 
severest  battles  in  which  the 
whites  and  Indians  have  ever  en- 
gaged. On  the  morning  of  the 
10th  of  October,  177N4,  an  army 
composed  almost  entirely  of  Vir- 
ginians, under  the  command  of 
General  Andrew  Lewis,  and 
numbering  about  eleven  hundred 
men,  was  attacked  by  a  largely 
superior  force  of  savages  under 
the  command  of  the  famous 
chieftain  Cornstalk.  The  battle 
raged  furiously  the  entire  day, 
and  ended  in  the  defeat  of  the 
Indians,  who  throughout  the  bat- 
tle, are  said  to  have  displayed 
the  most  determined  bravery. 
The  Virginia  army  sustained  in 
this  engagement  a  loss  of  seven- 
ty-five killed  and  one  hundred 
and  forty  wounded." 

"Among  the  slain  were  Colonels 
Charles  Lewis  and  John  Field 
and  eight  subordinate  officers, 
all  of  whom  were  of  the  best 
families  of  Virginia." 

"The  loss  of  the  savages  was 
never  ascertained,  as  it  was  their 
custom  to  bear  off  and  secrete 
their  dead.  Some  twenty  or 
more  bodies,  however,  were 
found  on  the  field,  which  the  In- 
dians had  been  unable  to  carry 
away." 

"The    wounded  whites  were 


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placed  within  entrenchments, 
thrown  up  at  the  point  of  the 
.confluence  of  the  Kanawha  and 
Ohio  rivers,  and  a  garrison  left 
there  to  protect  them,  the  dead 
were  buried  immediately  outside 
of  the  entrenchments,  though 
in  a  scattered  manner.  General 
Lewis  then  pursued  his  march 
northward." 

''Finding- our  selves  at  Point 
Pleasant  with  considerable  lei- 
sure and  time,  we  proposed  to  an 
old  friend  and  resident  of  the 
"Point"  to  take  us  to  the  graves 
of  the  heroes  of  the  battle  of 
Point  Pleasant.  With  a  willing- 
ness to  oblige  which  is  a  promi- 
nent characteristic  of  that  gen- 
tleman, he  readily  assented,  and 
in  a  few  moments  we  found  our- 
selves close  to  the  junction  of  the 
two  rivers,  standing  on  tip-toe 
looking  over  a  high  bank  on 
which  we  were  standing  com- 
pleting the  bounds.  A  few  in- 
dentations or  depression  were 
all  that  indicated  that  within  that 
small  enclosure  were  buried 
some  fifty  or  sixty  heroes  of  the 
times  that  tried  men's  souls. 
The  place  was  strewn  with  filth 
and  refuse  and  seemed  to  be  a 
general  depository  for  the  rub- 
bish of  the  neighborhood.  With 
a  feeling  of  disgust  at  the  cold 
neglect  so  plainly  manifested  by 
the  authorities,  not  only  of  the 
governments  of  the  States  of 
Virginia  and  West  Virginia,  but 
of  the  county  and  city  wherein 


rest  these  dead,  we  turned 
away." 

The  writer  who  signs  himself 
"Virginiout,"  relating  an  inter- 
view with  Mr.  Andrew  Darst, 
residing  upon  the  extreme  point 
where  the  rivers  meet,  who  not 
only  exhibited  a  grind  stone, 
cannon  ball,  and  shovel,  taken 
from  an  old  well  that  had  been 
within  the  fort,  but  he  'exhibited 
the  site  of  the  old  magazine  long 
since  gone  over  the  bank,  and  the 
site  of  the  cottage  wherein  Corn- 
stalk was  murdered. 

Quoting  further  from  article 
of  date  above  given,  Mr.  Darst 
said  in  that  published  interview: 
"About  1832  thar  came  by 
here  an  old  man  who  had  been 
here  in  Injin  times.  Some  folks 
were  wondering  whar  Cornstalk 
had  been  buried.  The  old  man 
said  he  knowed,  and  if  thej'd 
follow  him  he'd  show  'em.  So 
he  took  'em  out  to  a  ditch  just 
back  of  that  drug  store  you  see 
there,  (2nd  and  Viand  Streets) 
told  them  to  dig  in  at  a  certain 
place  and  they'd  find  Cornstalk 
about  four  feet  under  ground. 
They  dug  in  there  and  sure 
enough  they  found  him.  They 
then  took  him  up  and  buried  him 
in  the  Court  House  yard." 

"The  spot  of  land  here  on  the 
point  was  once  a  big  Injin  grave 
yard,  and  if  you  will  take  the 
trouble  to  look  over  the  bank 
where  it  has  been  washed  you'll 
find  bones  a  plenty.  All  of  'em's 


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across  beads  and  trinkets  among 
the  bones." 

Acting1  on  the  suggestion  we 
took  a  look  over  the  bank  and 
discovered  many  fragments  of 
bones  which  were  lying  loosely 
on  the  soil  or  projecting  from 
the  face  of  the  bank.  After 
sauntering  around  a  few  mo- 
ments longer  we  bade  "Andy" 
farewell  and  walked  off  to  take 
a  look  at  the  town." 

"The  heroes  of  Bunker  Hill 
have  their  monument  to  com- 
memorate their  deeds,  but  the 
brave  little  band  sleeping1  so  si- 
lently on  the  bank  of  the  Kana-- 
wha,  have  nothing  but  an  old  de- 
cayed,  worm  eaten  fence  to  mark 
their  graves.  Point  Pleasant 
and  Bunker  Hill,  were  each 
fought  in  the  same  cause,  and 
those  acquainted  with  the  history 
of  "Dunmore's  war'  will  not 
contradict  the  assertion  that  the 
battle  of  "Point  Pleasant,"  was 
really  the  first  battle  of  the  Rev- 
olution." 

The  Weekly  Register  of  May 
17,  1874,  editorially  comments 
on  the  importance  of  the  battle 
of  Point  Pleasant  and  quotes 
again  from  the  Charleston  Cou- 
rier/as  follows: 

"Is  there  any  event  connected 
with  our  past  history  which  so 
closely  affects  the  people  of  the 
Valley  as  the  battle  of  Point 
Pleasant,  where  Virginians 
bared  their  breast  to  protect  it 
from  invasions?  While  Eastern 


Virginia  had  her  Yorktown, 
West  Augusta  had  already  pur- 
chased a  victory  at  Point  Pleas- 
ant. To  no  event  transpiring 
within  the  limits  of  our  State  has 
ever  attached  the  importance  and 
grateful  recollections  as  has  to 
the  Point  Pleasant  battle.  It  is. 
well  suggested  then  that  the 
people  all  along  our  Valley  take 
some  steps  to  celebrate  the  one 
hundredth  anniversary  of  this 
event  at  Point  Pleasant  in  Octo- 
ber next.  Our  neighbors  in 
Mason  will  readily  adopt  the 
suggestion,  as  well  as  all  other 
counties  that  feel  an  interest  in 
preserving  afresh  both  the  mem- 
ory of  the  gallant  dead  and  their 
resting  places." 

"For  many  reasons  the  Mason 
county  people  should  take  the 
lead  in  this  matter,  and  we  feel 
confident  they  will.  Let  every 
community  then  from  the  Ohio 
to  the  Greenbrier,  fall  into  line 
and  adopt  some  harmonious  ac- 
tion to  fitly  celebrate  the  day, 
and  to  raise  suitable  funds  to  re- 
move the  disgrace  of  the  neglect- 
ed graves.  There  is  not  a  super- 
abundance of  time,  and  we  pre- 
dict a  prompt  response  from 
Mason.  Who  will  take  the  ini- 
tiatory for  a  grand  celebration 
of  this  event,  which  if  of  all 
others  the  one  great  shrine 
which  every  creed,  every  politi- 
cal faith  and  every  class  in  the 
State  can  pay  their  homage." 

"A  correspondent  from  Mason 


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County  to  the  Charleston  Courier 
contributed  the  following: 

"There  is  considerable  talk 
just  as  this  time  about  our  cen- 
tennial anniversary,  and  a  good 
deal  of  patriotic  feeling  is  being 
exhibited  in  that  direction.  His- 
tory records  that  on  the  morning 
of  the  10th  of  October,  1774, 
there  was  fought  at  this  Point 
one  of  the  severest  and  most  hot- 
ly contested  and  bloody  battles 
between  the  whites  under  Gen- 
eral Lewis  and  the  Indians  un- 
der command  of  the  great  war- 
rior, Cornstalk,  that  ever  took 
place  in  the  early  times  of  this 
country.  It  is  in  fact,  claimed 
that  this  was  the  first  battle  of 
the  Revolution,  and  for  freedom 
from  the  British  yoke.  On  the 
10th  of  October,  1874,  one  hun- 
dred years  will  have  elapsed 
since  that  memorable  battle,  in 
which  the  troops  under  Gen. 
Lewis  achieved  such  a  triumph." 

On  Tuesday,  May  26th,  the 
Directors  of  the  Second  Annual 
Mason  County  Fair  decided  to 
hold  their  Fair  on  October  6th, 
7th,  8th,  and  9th,  but  no  mention 
is  ma'de  of  the  observance  of  the 
10th,  the  anniversary  of  the  Bat- 
tle. Plans,  however,  were  going 
forward  from  Charleston,  as  the 
Charleston  Courier,  in  its  last  is- 
sue of  May  18,  1774,  gives  the 
following: 

"The  idea  of  the  Centennial 
celebration  at  Point  Pleasant  is 


a  very  happy  one.  It  is  an  event 
in  which  every  true  West  Vir- 
ginian should  take  pride.  Our 
state  embraces  a  large  boundary 
of  territory  of  "West  Augusta," 
whose  sons  rendered  themselves 
so  famous  in  the  days  that  "tried 
men's  souls,"  and  to  whom  the 
great  Washington  looked,  for 
raliance  when  all  others  should 
fail  him,". 

"Many  descendants  of  the  par- 
ticipants in  the  famous  Indian 
battle  at  the  Point,  are  now  liv- 
ing in  this  State.  In  the  coun- 
ties of  the  Greenbrier  Valley  as 
well  as  in  the  Kanawha  Valley 
are  living  those  who  bear  the 
name  and  through  whose  veins 
run  the  blood  of  the  Captain  of 
the  Virginia  forces,  Andrew 
Lewis,  as  well  as  those  who  de- 
scended from  the  brave  men 
that  followed  him  in  that  remark- 
able campaign.  The  result  of 
the  battle  at  the  Point  saved  all 
the  Virginia  frontier  from  the 
invasion  of  the  Indians.  If  Corn- 
stalk had  been  successful  who 
can  imagine  the  fearful  desola- 
tion that  would  have  been 
wrought  from  the  Ohio  to  the 
Alleghanies." 

"Is  it  "not  a  little  remarkable 
that  while  this  battle  should  have 
become  so  famous  in  history,  that 
so  little  should  be  known  of  the 
particulars  of  the  fight?  While 
history  is  silent,  we  have  tradi- 
tions that  should  be  gathered, 
and  the  most  authentic  ones  be 


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placed  in  some  shape  as  to  be  re- 
liablv  transmitted  to  posterity. 
There  are  many  households  of 
West  Virginia,  where  stories  of 
grand  father's  experience  in  the 
battle  of  the  "Pint"  are  related 
to  day,  and  many  of  them  told 
by  those  who  have  heard  the 
relation  from  the  lips  of  the  vet- 
erans himself.  What  a  pleasant 
task  then  for  some  one  to  collect 
these  traditions  and  weave  his- 
tory from  them." 

***** 

"Just  as  the  battle  of  Point 
Pleasant  was  the  prelude  to  the 
war  of  Independence,  so  let  the 
celebration  at  the  Point  in  1874 
be  the  prelude  to  the  grand  af 
foir  to  come  off  at  Philadelphia 
in  1876,  and  let  every  West  Vir- 
ginian, and  every  Old  Virginian, 
and  every  one  who  sees  proper 
to  join  us,  take  part  in  the  jubi- 
lee on  the  10th  of  October  next.'' 

To  further  stimulate  the  inter- 
est in  the  Battle  Celebration,  the 
Register,  on  June  25th,  copied 
from  Nile's  Register,  of  May  3, 
1817.  yn  account  of  the  battle  and 
in  the  issue  of  August  27,  1874, 
the  Register  copied  De  Mass' 
Hi-story  and  Indian  Wars  in  West 
Virginia,  the  account  in  full  of 
the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant. 
The  Register  of  October  8,  has 
tailed  up  until  that  time  to  give 
any  program  or  details  of  the 
celebration,  but,  in  speaking  of 
the  Fair  then  in  session,  says: 
"The  Fair  will  close  on  Friday 


evening  with  a  grand  ball  at 
Beale's  Hall  On  Saturday  the 
Centennial  Celebration  will  come 
of. 

The  issue  of  the  Weekly    Reg 
ister   of   October    15,  1874,  gives 
the  following  detailed  account  of 
the    Celebration;    written    Oct. 
10th,  1874. 

"The  Centenniel  celebration  of 
the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant  is 
now  over.  Just  one  hundred 
years  ago  to-night,  brave  men 
and  true  were  mourning  over  the 
dead,  and  ministering  as  best 
they  could  to  the  wounded  and 
dying.  Let  us  as  best  we  can, 
look  back  upon  the  day  that  has 
just  been  closed  by  the  setting 
sun  of  the  10th  day  of  October, 
1874,  and  tell  our  readers  what 
has  been  done.  Many  an  eye 
looked  out  anxiously  this  morn- 
ing to  See  what  was  to  be  the 
prospect  for  a  beautiful  day. 
For  one  I  was  sadly  disappointed 
and  feared  that  the  Heavens 
would  soon  be  sending  down  the 
rain. 

"How  anxiously  we  watched 
every  appearance  indicating  like 
a  breaking  away  of  the  lowering 
clouds.  Soon  after  an  early 
breakfast,  the  clouds  began  to 
look  thin,  and  then  spot  after 
spot  of  blue  sky  was  seen. 
Anxiously  did  the  eager  gather- 
ing- crowd,  look  for  the  promised 
published  programme.  About 
9  o'clock  A.  M.,  the  Register  of- 
fice sent  out  the  first,  which  were 


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eagerly  seized  by  the  hungry 
crowd;  then  another  and  another 
handful  of  programmes  were 
distributed,  so  that  before  the 
hour  of  10  A.  M.,  all  seemed  to 
be  posted  as  to  what  was  to  be 
done.  About  10  o'clock  the  Com- 
pany of  Cadets  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  West  Virginia,  at  Mor- 
gantown,  were  formed  in  line  by 
their  Captain,  H.  H.  Pierce,  in 
front  of  the  Kline  House,  near 
the  wharf-boat,  on  the  Ohio,  and 
waited  to  receive  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  from  Gallipolis,  Ohio, 
accompanied  by  the  Gallipolis 
Brass  Band.  Soon  the  Knights 
came  marching  up,  splendidly 
dressed,  and  a  fine  looking  body 
of  men  they  were,  passing  in 
front  of  the  Cadets,  they  halted 
on  Main  Mreet.  The  Cadets, 
moved  in  column  of  fours  up  to 
Main  Street,  then  wheeling  to 
the  left,  were  halted  opposite  the 
Court  House — the  site  of  which 
is  supposed  to  have  been  on  the 
line  of  battle  as  it  was  formed, 
just  one  hundred  vears  ago  to- 
day. Here  let  us  give  the  pro 
gramme  as  follows: 

Centennial  Celebration 

of  the 
Battle  of  Point  Pleasant. 

Order  of  Exercises. 

Procession   to    form    in    front  of 

Court    House   at  10  A.  M.  in  the 

following  order:     Mayor,  Orator, 

and  Committee  of  Arrangements. 

State  Cadets. 

The  Clergy. 


Relatives. 
Music. 

Knights  of  Pythias  and  other 
Orders. 

Distinguished  Guests. 

Citizens. 

Funeral  Procession. 

Escort  of  State  Cadets. 

Re-interment   of  the  remains  of 

the  heroes  who  fell  in  this  battle, 

with    becoming1  ceremonies  at  3 

o'clock  p.  m. 

Under  the  effective  Marshals 
who  had  been  on  duty  at  the 
Fair  Grounds  for  the  last  four 
days,  the  column  was  formed — 
The  Cadets  were  headed  by  their 
own  drum  corps;  the  Knights  of 
Pythias  by  the  Gallipolis  and 
Point  Pleasant  Brass  Bands 
combined,  whilst  the  Ravens- 
wood  Brass  Band  marched  up 
the  side  walk  and  waited  for  the 
formation  of  the  column,  after 
which  it  took  the  place  assigned 
it. 

.  Just  before  11  A.  M.  the  col- 
umn was  put  in  motion  and 
marched  in  the  order  assigned, 
to  the  Fair  Ground,  where  more 
than  a  thousand  people  were 
found  waiting-  the  arrival  of  the 
column.  So  densly  crowded  was 
the  amphitheater  before  the  head 
of  the  column  reached  its  front 
that  it  was  with  the  utmost  dif- 
ficulty that  the  Committee  of 
Arrangements  could  clear  away 
space  enough  for  the  Company 
of  Cadets.  A  stand  for  the 
speakers  had  been  erected  just 


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opposite  the  center  of  the  am- 
phitheatre. This  stand  was  oc- 
cupied by  the  following  persons: 
Col.  Lewis  Ruffner,  Col.  C.  B. 
Waggener,  Col.  Benj.  H.  Smith, 
Capts.  H.  H.  Pierce,  Command- 
ing the  Cadets,  Geo.  C.  Sturgess, 
Corresponding  Secretary  of  the 
Historical  Society  of  the  Board 
of  Regents  University  of  West 
Virginia,  J.  W.  Screntz,  Treas- 
urer of  the  same,  Dr.  Thomas 
Creigh,  of  Greenrier  County,  Dr. 
S  G.  Shaw,  President  of  the 
Centennial  Society,  F.  A. 
Guthrie,  Attorney  at  Law,  and 
member  of  the  Committee  of  Ar- 
rangements, Jno.  E.  Timms,  At- 
torney at  Law,  Secretary  of  the 
Mason  County  Agricultural  So- 
ciety, Col.  (Dr.)  A.  R.  Barbee, 
G.  W.  E.  Mitchell,-  of  Ports- 
mouth, Ohio,  John  D.  Lewis  and 
Jno.  Waddell,  who  was  wearing 
the  shot  pouch  aud  powder  horn 
carried  by  his  father,  Alexander 
Waddell,  in  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant.  The  Clergy  occupy- 
ing the  stand  were  Father  Fran- 
cis Guthrie,  one  of  the  Pioneer 
Methodist  Preachers  of  the  Ka 
nawha  Valley,  Revs.  S.  E.  Lane 
T.  H.  Rymer,  T.  H.  Lacy,  G. 
C.  Wilding,  and  W.  E.  'Hill. 
The  exercises  were  introduced 
with  a  prayer  offered  by  Father 
Guthrie,  which  was  full  of 
thanksgiving  and  praise,  then 
the  orator,  Col.  Ben  Smith,  was 
introduced  by  Mr.  Timms.  He 
commenced  reading  his  well 


written  and  interesting  address 
at  12  o'clock  and  22  minutes,  just 
five  minutes  after  the  13th  gun 
of  the  salute  was  fired  by  the 
Artillery  Company  from  Gallipo- 
lis,  Ohio.  This  occupied  about 
thirty-five  minutes.  The  speak' 
er  took  his  seat  amid  deafening 
roars  The  following  resolution 
was  offered  by  Dr.  Barbee: 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of 
this  audience  be  returned  to  Col. 
Smith,  for  his  interesting  ad- 
dress, and  that,  with  his  permis- 
sion, it  be  published  in  full  in  the 
Point  Pleasant  Register. 

This  resolutions  was  carried 
without  a  dissenting  voice. 

After  this  the  following  pream- 
ble and  resolutions  were  offered 
by  Rev.  W.  E.  Hill: 

Whereas,  Just  one  hundred 
years  have  passed  by  since  the 
battle  of  Point  Pleasant  was 
fought  and  won. 

2.  In  this     battle   there    was 
displayed  gallantry  of  such  char- 
acter, as  to  merit  a  lasting   mon- 
ument. 

3.  It  is  the   opinion  of  some, 
whose  opinion  is   worthy  of  re- 
spect,   that   this   battle   bore  an 
important  relation  to  the  war  of 
the    Revolution,    by    which    the 
original  thirteen  colonies   gained 
their  independence.. 

4.  The  battle  of  Point  Pleas- 
ant hastened   the  material  pros- 
perity of   this  and   other  States, 
by  the   sacrifice   of  noble  blood, 
therefore  be  it  Resolved. 


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1st.  That  a  committee  of 
three  with  power  to  engage 
others,  be  appointed  to  solicit 
contributions  for  the  purpose  of 
erecting  a  monument  and  pur- 
chasing the  ground  round  about 
the  spot  where  the  remains  of 
our  heroes  now  repose. 

That  this  committee  be  em- 
powered to  raise  a  subscription 
on  the  ground  to-day;  to  write  to 
the  descendents  of  the  brave 
men  who  were  engaged  or  fell 
on  the  field  of  Point  Pleasant, 
asking  them  to  aid  in  this  work 
by  contributions;  to  ask  the  Leg- 
islatures of  Virginia,  West  Vir- 
ginia, Kentucky  and  Ohio,  to 
make  appropriations  to  this 
work;  and  to  request  also  the 
Congress  of  the  United  States  to 
make  an  appropriation  to  the 
same  end. 

2nd.  That  this  monument  be 
erected  within  the  next  twelve 
months,  and  of  West  Virginia 
marble. 

3rd.  That  it  be  unveiled  on 
the  10th  of  October,  1875. 

4th.  That  the  committee  be 
empowered  to  arrange  for  funer- 
al oration  and  an  hisiorical  ad- 
dress on  the  occasoin:  and  to 
make  such  other  arrangements 
as  may  be  necessary  to  gather 
together  the  military  organiza- 
tions of  the  State;  the  various 
secret  societies  of  a  benevolent 
character;  the  legislatures  of  the 
State,  &c. 

Mr.  Hill  introduced  these  res- 


olutions by  a  motion  to  resolve 
the  vast  audience  into  a  Monu- 
mental Centennial  Organization. 
After  the  reading  of  the  resolu- 
tions a  motion  was  made  to  adopt. 
Pending  this,  Dr.  Creigh  arose 
and  asked  to  be  allowed  to  speak 
on  the  question.  Permission 
was  granted,  and  the  Dr.  per- 
fectly thrilled  those  within  reach 
of  his  voice.  After  the  Doctor's 
eloquent  speech,  the  motion  to 
adopt  the  resolutions  was  carried 
with  but  one  single  dissenting 
voice,  whose  "nc"  was  followed 
by  cries  "of  ,"put  him  out!" 
"Knock  him  down,"  &c. 

Mr.  Mitchell,  of  Portsmouth. 
Ohio,  was  then  introduced  and 
made  a  short  speech,  which 
could  not  be  heard  very  far  off, 
owing  to  the  noise  of  the  moving 
crowd  and  the  low  pitch  of  voice, 
and  its  effectiveness  was  marred 
to  some  extent.  Loud  cries 
were  head  for  (Walker) .  It  was 
announced  that  Mr.  Walker  was 
at  the  Point,  and  had  been  sent 
for,  but  could  not  get  here  for 
^ome  time. 

A  cry  for  Sturgess  brought 
that  gentlemen  to  his  feet,  and 
he  made  a  very  happy  address. 

The  President,  Dr.  G.  S.  Shaw, 
announced  as  a  temporary  com- 
mittee to  wait  upon  the  crowd, 
to  solicit  contributions  for  the 
monument,  viz:  E.  L.  Neale, 
Dr.  C.  T.  B.  Moore,  and  F.  A. 
Guthrie.  The  latter  gentlemen 
being  a  member  of  the  Commit- 


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tee  of  Arrangements,  suggested 
Rev.  W.  E.  Hill,  as  his  substi- 
tute. Recess  was  taken  and 
ample  provisions  were  made  to 
fill  the  inner  man.  Many  fami- 
lies gathered  in  groups  about 
the  grounds,  in  picnic  fashion, 
and  ate  their  dinner  whilst  a 
roast  ox  was  served  up  at  the 
public  table.  During  the  recess 
the  committee  raised  by  sub- 
scription about  six  hundred  dol- 
lars. One  gentleman  subscrib- 
ed two  hundred  dollars  in  cash 
on  two  papers,  and  we  do  not 
think  he  indends  to  stop  at  that 
if  more  is  necessary  from  him, 
to  erect  the  monument.  There 
was  such  a  dense  crowd  and 
such  hurrying  to  and  fro  that  it 
was  almost  impossible  to  get  the 
attention  of  the  people  long 
enough  to  get  them  to  subscribe, 
or  we  doubt  not,  more  than  a 
thousand  dollars  could  have 
been  raised. 

After  dinner  the  crowd  was 
called  together  to  listen  to  Hon. 
Henry  S.  Walker,  who  delivered 
a  most  appropriate  and  thrilling- 
ly  eloquent  address.  We  would 
not  attempt  to  given  even  a  syn- 
opsis of  it,  so  carried  away  were 
we  with  its  effect  upon  the  peo- 
ple that  we  could  not  take  a  note 
but  stood,  feeling  with  delight 
its  effect  upon  our  self  and  watch- 
ing the  feelings  of  uthers  as  their 
animated  countenances  told  that 
the  touch  of  eloquence  was  forc- 
ing the  tell-tale  blood  to  their 


faces.  Frequent  outbursts  of 
applause  interrupted  the  speak- 
er, and  a  hearty  vote  of  thanks 
was  returned  for  his  eloquent 
address.  We  must  say  one  thing 
about  Mr.  Walker's  address;  it 
was  written  and  written  too  in  a 
few  hours,  for  he  was  captured 
as  he  was  aiming  to  pass  the 
Point.  In  this  case  captured 
property  proved  to  be  A  No.  1. 
After  the  address  by  Mr.  Wal- 
ker, the  procession  was  reform- 
ed in  the  same  order  and  took 
up  the  line  of  march  from  the 
point  at  the  head  of  Viand  Street 
the  column  received  the  Hearse 
and  Casket  containing  the  re- 
mains of  some  of  the  heroes  of 
Point  Pleasant  that  were  killed 
in  the  battle.  These  were  e*- 
humed  on  yesterday  and  today, 
under  the  supervision  of  the 
Committee,  Dr.  Barbee  Superin- 
tending in  person.  Here  the 
Cadets  with  reversed  arms  and 
muffled  drums,  took  their  posi- 
tion as  an  escort.  The  column 
moved  down  Main  street,  to  the 
Kanawha  River,  and  filed  to  the 
right,  where  the  bone  of  ourslain 
heroes  were  re-interred  with 
military  honors.  At  the  grave 
the  beautiful  burial  service  of  the 
Church  was  read  by  the  Minis-^ 
ters  present  in  the  column. 

As  the  procession  was  moving 
down  Main  street,  first  the  Court 
House  Bell,  then  the  bell  of  the 
M.  E.  Church,  South,  were  tolled, 
whilst  the  minute  gun  was  fired 


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by  the  Artillery  Company.  The 
drums  were  muffled  and  the 
band  played  an  appropriate  piece, 
thus  giving  solemnity  to  the  ex- 
ercises. 

Just  before  the  benediction 
was  pronounced,  a  vote  of  thanks 
was  returned  to  the  Morgantown 
Cadets,  to  the  Knights  of 
Pythian,  Band  and  Artillery,  of 
Gallipolis,  Ohio,  to  the  Ravens- 
wood  Band,  and  all  others  who 
had  aided  in  the  Centennial  Cele- 
bration. 

The  crowd  then  dispersed,  the 
Cadets  marched  to  the  Kline 
House,  where  three  rousing, 
hearty  cheers  were  given  them 
by  all  present;  the  Knights  took 
up  their  line  of  march  toward 
their  homes,  at  Gallipolis,  and 
the  other  organizations  went  al- 
so to  their  homes.  The  Cadets 
took  the  steamer  Clara  Scott  for 
Charleston. 

Thus  ended  the  First  Centen- 
nial Celebration  of  the  Battle  of 
Point  Pleasant.  We  say  in  con- 
cluding our  description  of  it, 
from  morning  till  night;  each  one 
that  had  a  given  part  to  perform, 
'vied  with  the  other  as  to  which 
could  do  it  best.  All  acted  well 
their  parts. 

There  may  have  been,  but  we 
did  not  see,  a  single  drunken 
man  on  the  ground. 

The  Point  Pleasant  Brass 
Band  has  done  better  than  its 
most  sanguine  friends  had  hoped 
for  it,  both  during  the  celebration 


of  today,  and  toe  three  days  of 
the  Fair.  May  it  still  continue 
to  improve — we  can  stand  the 
hum  drum  of  practice  for  the 
sake  of  such  a  treat  as  they  have 
given  us  in  the  last  few  days. 

Let  us  all  now  go  to  work  earn- 
nestly  and  determinedly  to  make 
the  "unveiling of  the  Monument" 
as  decided  a  success  as  the  Cele- 
bration of  today — but  let  us 
make  it  wider  in  its  extent.  Let 
us  make  it  State  and  National. 
Come  up,  one  and  all  witti  what 
you  can  do  with  money  and  influ- 
ence, and  we  shall  have  the 
pleasure  of  chronicling  at  the 
end  of  another  year,  the  success 
of  the  enterprise  inagurated  to- 
day. There  will  be  some  croak- 
ing as  a  matter  of  course — some 
men  grumble  even  at  the  wisdom 
and  benevolence  of  the  Infinite 
God — but  let  us,  who  are  deter- 
mined to  succeed  in  the  enter- 
prise before  us,  turn  a  deaf  ear 
to  all  croaking,  and  the  more 
they  croak,  the  more  determined 
let  us  become.  One  hundred 
years  ago  was  a  great  historical 
epoch  of  Point  Pleasant.  Today 
has  been  another,  let  one  year 
from  today  "  be  another.  Who 
dares  say  "nay?"  What  citizen 
of  Mason  County,  or  West  Vir- 
ginia, or  Virginia,  or  Ohio,  or 
Kentucky,  or  the  United  States, 
could  refuse  to  aid  in  doing  honor 
to  the  heroes  of  Point  Pleasant?" 
BRIEF  MENTION. 

"In  the  midst  of  the  throng  of 


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the  Centennial  celebration,  we 
noticed  many  of  the  direct  de- 
scendants of  the  warriors  of  one 
hundred  years  ago,  and  will  re- 
call the  names  of  them  as  far  as 
we  can:  There  were  the  East- 
hams,  the  Somervilles,  Jas.  Ar- 
buckle,  Jr.,  of  Greenbrier,  John 
D.  Lewis,  of  Kanawha,  the  Lew- 
ises, of  Mason,  Mrs.  Agnes  Se- 
hon,  who  had  two  grandfathers 
in  this  great  battle,  (Col.  Charles 
Lewis  and  Col.  John  Stuart,) 
who  is  also  the  first  representa- 
tive of  four  living  generations 
who  were  upon  the  ground  and 
who  are  liniel  decendents  of  the 
two  pioneers — Cols.  Lewis  and 
Stuart.  The  fourth  generation 
was  represented  by  her  great 
grand  child,  little  Graf  ton  Tyler, 
who  is  now  some  three  or  four 
years  old.  Mrs.  Sehon  was 
probably  the  only  person  on  the 
ground  that  could  say  as  much- 
John  Waddell,  of  Ohio,  was  also 
present  and  had  swung  around 
his  shoulder  the  powder-horn 
and  bullet  pouch,  carried  by  his 
father  in  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant  on  the  10th  day  of  Oc- 
tober, 1774.  The  Hannans,  the 
Clendennins,  the  Millers,  of  Ma- 
son County,  the  Clendenios,  the 
Hannans,  the  Millers  of  Ohio. 
There  were  a  number  of  others 
present  whose  names  we  did  not 
ascertain." 

On  October  22nd,  the  Register 
published  the  speech  of  Dr. 
Thos.  Creigb,  of  Virginia,  deliv 


ered  on  the  occasion  of  the  anni- 
versary of  the  battle,  which  we 
quote  in  part: 

"I  am  glad  I  am  here  because 
I  witness  a  scene,  (and  I  appeal 
to  the  best  and  oldest  historians 
here  present  for  the  truth  of  the 
remark,  that  such  a  scene  of 
moral  sublimity,  except  the  sign- 
ing of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence, has  never  been  pre- 
sented to  the  people  of  these 
United  States  as  is  presented 
here  today.)  And  what  is  that 
scene?  I  see  around  me  some 
two  thousand  people  with  the. 
descendants  of  the  heroes  of  the 
battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  to  the 
third  and  fourth  generation,  on 
this  10th  day  of  October,  1874,— 
under  a  bright  October  sun,  one 
hundred  years  after  the  battle,— 
assembled  on  the  battle-field,  fol- 
lowing the  lofty  instincts  of  our 
nature,  to  gather  the  bones  of 
their  ancestors,  place  them  in  a 
metallic  coffin,  catch  the  inspira- 
tion of  their  ever  living  virtue 
and  valor,  and  determining  to 
place  a  high  and  enduring  monu- 
ment to  their  memory.  Yes  sir, 
to  erect  a  monument  high  and 
lofty  on  the  banks  between  the 
Great  Kanawha  and  Ohio,  to 
overlook  these  two  great  rivers, 
the  music  of  whose  waters  will 
mingle  with  the  names  forever, 
where  the  passengers  on  board 
your  vast  merchant  steamers, 
sailing  on  these  great  commer- 
cial highways,  shall  see  it  and  as 


109 


they  pass  by  uncover  their  heads 
and  toll  from  the  bell  a  requiem 
to  their  memory,  and  where  the 
valiant  youth  of  our  country 
shall  in  all  future  time  come  to 
worship  at  this  shrine,  study 
their  character,  imitate  their  vir- 
tues and  be  inspired  by  their 
lofty  deeds  of  patriotism,  and 
where  boys  and  girls  in  happy 
bands  shall  come  for  long  cen- 
turies and  cover  this  marble 
column  with  the  cypress  and  the 
vine,  and  the  immortal  flower." 

"Yes,  sir,  build  this  marble 
column  to  their  memory,  for 
they  were  "tall  and  grand"  old 
warriors.  Do  you  know  why  I 
say  "tall  and  grand?"  they  are 
not  original  terms  with  me.  I 
will  tell  you  where  I  got  them. 
Old  Pool,  a  colored  man,  was  the 
body  servant  of  Col.  John  Stuart, 
of  Greenbrier  at  the  battle  and 
witnessed  the  fight  at  Pt.  Pleas- 
ant, and  took  part  in  it.  Old  Dick 
Pointer,  another  colored  man, 
was  the  hero  of  Donnalley's  Fort, 
near  Lewisburg,  Greenbrier 
county,  and  for  his  bravery,  was 
freed  by  the  Legislature  of  Vir- 
ginia, and  received  a  pension. 
Col.  Ben  Smith,  our  orator,  was 
no  doubt  a  member  of  the  Vir- 
ginia Legislature  at  that  time. 
Old  Pool  and  Old  Dick  were 
talking  over  their  battles  in 
Lewisburg  one  day  when  I  was 
a  school  boy,  and  we  school  boys 
were  all  standing  by  and  listen- 
ing. Pool  and  Dick  became  very 


much  excited  in  telling  what 
each  had  done.  Dick  says  the 
Indian  is  taller  than  the  white 
man  for  I  killed  Indians  as  high 
as  the  court  house.  No,  says 
Pool,  if  you  could  have  seen  Mas. 
John  and  Charles  and  James,  in 
the  light  at  the  Point,  when  fire 
flew  out  of  their  eyes  like  the  fire 
out  of  their  guns;  they  were  just 
as  tall  and  grand  as  the  old  trees 
on  Kanawha.  That  is  the  rea- 
son why  I  say  they  were  "tall 
and  grand  old  warriors." 

"But,  sir,  history  informs  us 
that  there  was  a  man  by  the 
name  of  George  Washington, 
who  had  a  high  opinion  of  the 
companies  of  these  Point  Pleas- 
ant, warriors,  for  he  said  in  a 
dark  hour  of  his  campaign  to  his 
wearied  and  dispirited  army  on 
the  plains  of  New  Jers'ey,  'only 
give  me  the  men  to  place  the 
standard  of  my  country  on  the 
mountains  of  West  Augusta,  and 
I  will  call  around  me  the  men 
who  shall  make  my  country  free. 
These  'tall  and  grand'  warriors 
were  West  Augusta  men,  and 
Washington  knew  them." 

"Yes,  build  a  monument  of  en- 
during marble  to  the  memory  of 
those  old  grand  warriors,  for 
you  may  look  down  the  long  pic- 
ture gallery  of  history  and  you 
will  find  no  brighter  or  grander 
names  than  the  men  of  1774  and 
1776.  Nor  let  us  forget  their 
characters,  or  their  great  princi- 


no 


pies  of  civil  liberty,  or  insult  the 
spirit  of  liberty." 

While  the  Register  of  Decem- 
ber 10,  1774,  gives  the  following 
account  of  the  committee. 

The  Point  Pleasant  Monu- 
ment Association  held  their  first 
meeting  in  the  law  office  of  John 
W,  English,  Esq.,  December  4th, 
1874.  All  the  members  of  the 
Committee,  viz:  W.  E.  Hill,  F. 
A.  Guthrie  and  John  W.  English, 
were  present.  On  motion,  John 
W.  English,  was  called  to  the 
chair;  and  on  further  motion, 
was  made  permanent  Chairman. 
On  motion,  C.  E.  Hogg,  was 
elected  Secretary,  and  T.  Strib- 
ling,  Treasurer.  On  motion,  the 
Committee  was  ordered  to  in- 
quire into  the  title  of  the  land  on 
which  the  monument  is  to  be 
erected.  «On  motion,  the  Com- 
mittee was  directed  to  see  Drs. 
Shaw  and  Moore  with  reference 
to  subscription  papers,  and  also 
ascertain  how  much  money  is  in 
their  hands  belonging  to  the 
Association,  and  to  pay  the  same 
to  the  Treasurer.  On  motion, 
the  Association  adjourned  to 
meet  Thursday  evening,  Decem- 
ber 17th,  1874." 

While  no  report  has  been  pre- 
served of  the  Monument  Associ- 
ation, founded  on  October  10, 
1874,  the  work  of  procuring 
funds  was  taken  up  by  the  Ma- 
son County  representatives  in 
the  Legislature  of  West  Virginia, 
Hon.  Edmund  Sehon,  descendant 


of  Col.  Charles  Lewis  introduc- 
ing the  bill  in  the  lower  house, 
while  Hon.  P.  C.  Eastham,  de- 
scendant of  George  Eastham,  of 
the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  in- 
troduced the  bill  in  the  upper 
house.  On  Feb.  25,  1875,  the 
Legislature  passed  a  bill  carry- 
ing an  appropriation  of  $3,500.00 
to  aid  in  the  purchase  of  land 
and  the  erection  of  a  monument 
in'commemoration  of  the  Battle 
of  Point  Pleasant,  the  President 
and  Secretary  of  the  Monument 
Association  to  have  charge  of  the 
erection  of  said  monument,  the 
parties  investing  the  money  with 
approved  security,  awaiting  as 
sistance  from  other  states. 
No  further  action  was  taken  un- 
til Feb.  26,  1897,  when  the  Leg- 
islature adopted  a  Joint  Resolu- 
tion by  which  Governor  Geo.  W. 
Atkinson  appointed  Judge  John 
W.  English,  Dr.  A.  R.  Barbee 
and  Judge  F.  A.  Guthrie  as  cus- 
todians of  the  fund  appropriated 
by  the  Legislature. 

The  matter  again  lay  dormant 
and  no  effort  was  made  either  to 
collect  the  funds  or  secure  fur- 
ther appropriations. 

That  the  State  and  Point 
Pleasant  was  not  free  from  cen- 
sure for  their  dereliction  of  duty, 
we  quote  in  part  from  the  King- 
wood  Argus  of  June  29,  1899, 
copied  in  the  State  Gazette  July 
4th,  of  that  year:  "We  were  at 
Point  Pleasant  and  visited  the 
graves  of  the  almost  forgotten 


Ill 


dead  who  fell  in  that  memorable 
battle  and  we  were  surprised 
and  indignant  to  find  the  place 
almost  surrounded  by  stables 
and  hog-  pens  and  lying- along- a 
back  alley  with  not  a  mark  of 
any  kind  to  designate  the  spot; 
not  even  a  fence  or  wall  around 
the  place  and  no  one  could  find  it 
without  a  guide  who  knew  just 
where  it  was.  It  was  only  a  very 
small  plot  of  ground,  in  some  one 
else's  back  yard,  with  stables  on 
two  sides  of  it  and  a  garden  on 
another  side  and  the  only  way  to 
get  to  it  is  down  a  dirty  alley. 
Nearly  a  hundred  pioneers  of 
that  section  who  fell  in  that  bat- 
tle, fighting  old  Cornstalk  for 
possession  of  the  beautiful  land 
along  the  Ohio  river  lie  buried 
there,  unmarked  and  almost  for- 
gotton.  It  is  a  burning  shame 
and  disgrace  on  the  town  to  al- 
low it.  We  went  up  to  a  news- 
paper office  and  made  a  vigorous 
kick  about  it  and  learned  that 
money  ha'd  been  appropriated 
by  the  State  and  also  quite  a  sum 
raised  by  the  ladies  of  Point 
Pleasant  to  erect  a  monument  to 
these  heroes,  dead  defenders  of 
our  country.  Now  let  justice 
and  decency  compel  a  disposition 
of  this  matter.  The  State  or 
the  town  should  take  charge  and 
secure  some  contiguous  ground 
to  the  resting  place  which  can- 
not be  called  a  cemetery  or  even 
a  graveyard,  as  it  is  now,  and 
make  a  little  park  out  of  it  with 


a  fence  around  it,  and  erect  a. 
handsome  mouument  on  the  cen- 
ter of  the  site  and  make  a  decent 
way  to  get  10  it  by  removing 
some  of  the  adjoining  stables 
and  hog  pens." 

The  State  Gazette  appended 
the  following  editorial  comment: 
"We  think  the  suggestion  that 
the  park  and  monument  should 
be  contiguous  to  the  resting 
place  of  the  dead  heroes  and 
should  include  it  as  well  as  the 
site  of  the  old  fort  is  the  cor- 
rect solution.  The  Argus 
will  no  doubt  be  surprised  to 
learn  that  there  are  suggestions 
now  made  that  the  monument  be 
placed  away  up  on  the  Ohio 
bank  twelve  squares  from  the 
site  of  the  old  fort  and  grave  of 
Col.  Lewis  and  others,  and  sug- 
gestions that  it  be  placed  back 
on  the  hill  overlooking  the  town. " 

There  is  no  mention  of  the 
celebration  of  the  anniversary  of 
that  year  1899  save  the  local 
newspaper  account  that, 

"To-day,  October  10,  1899,  is 
the  one  hundred  and  twenty-fifth 
anniversary  of  ihe  battle  of  Point 
Pleasant,  fought  between  Gener- 
al Andrew  Lewis  and  Cornstalk, 
the  sachem  of  many  nations  and 
no  citizen  evidenced  any  inter- 
est save  Col.  G.  B.  Thomas,  the 
Post-master,  who  decorated  the 
Post  Office  with  flags." 

No  further  agitation  of  the 
subject  appeared  in  the  local 
newspapers  save  that  o  f  the 


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State  Gazette  of  April  21,  1899, 
urging  the  organization  of  a 
Chapter  of  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution  and  Sons 
of  the  Revolution  here,  looking 
forward  to  proper  recognition  of 
the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant  in 
which  it  said:  "Here  was 
fought  the  first  battle  of  the  Rev- 
olution and  whv  should  not  this 
town  and  county  boast  of  the 
largest  patriotic  organizations  in 
the  State." 

No  further  steps  were  taken 
at  Point  Pleasant  looking  to  a 
monument  appropriation  until 
Feb.  11,  1901,  when  Mrs.  Livia 
Simpson-Poffenbarger  issued  a 
call  for  the  organization  of  a 
Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution  which  is  of 
date  of  Feb.  14,  1909,  reported 
as  follows  in  the  State  Gazette : 

"A  sufficient  number  of  ladies 
met  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  George  ' 
Poffenbarger  yesterday  to  organ- 
ise a  Chapter  of  the  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution.  As 
soon  as  the  requirements  are 
duly  met,  a  Charter  will  be 
granted.  This  is  a  most  com- 
mendable move  and  should  meet 
with  the  support  and  best  wish- 
es of  the  entire  town." 

At  this  meeting  it  was  explain- 
ed that  the  chief  motive  in  organ- 
izing this  patriotic  society  was 
that  an  organized  effort  might 
be  made  to  secure  funds  for  the 
erection  of  a  Battle  Monument  at 
Point  Pleasant  and  the  recogni- 


tion of   the    battle   as  that  of  the 
first  Battle  of  the  Revolution. 

On  Feb.  26,  1901,  a  call  was  is- 
sued for  the  organization  of  a 
Chapter  of  Sons  of  the  Revolution 
and  the  State  Gazette  of  that  is- 
sue said  editorially,  "This  is  a 
move  in  the  right  direction. 
This  is  the  historic  spot  of  the 
first  battle  of  the  Rev.olution. 
In  order  that  history  may  accord 
us  that  place  with  due  credit,  we 
must  first  show  that  Point  Pleas- 
ant appreciates  this  fact.  If  the 
spot  is  to  be  properly  marked 
and  receive  from  the  National 
Government  the  appropriation 
arid  recognition  for  a  splendid 
monument  that  the  battle  de- 
serves, we  must  first  show  that 
the  memory  is  dear  to  us." 

On  Feb.  29,  1901,  the  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution 
were  formally  organized  and  the 
name  selected  was  that  of  Col. 
Charles  Lewis,  named  for  one  of 
the  best  beloved  heroes  of  those 
who  fell  at  the  Battfe  -of  Point 
Pleasant.  At  that  meeting  the 
Daughters  in  conformity  with 
the  statement  of  Governor  White 
that  be  would  appoint  one  man 
outside  of  Point  Pleasant  and 
two  resident  members  of  the 
commission  to  look  after  the 
funds  the  ladies  recommended 
V.  A.  Lewis  of  Mason  and  P.  S 
Lewis  and  C.  C.  Bowyer  of  Point 
Pleasant,  but  the  Governor  later 
decided  to  appoint  but  one  man 
in  Point  Pleasant  and  the  com- 


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mission  named  was  John  P. 
Austin,  C.  C.  Bovvyer  and  V.  A. 
Lewis.  On  March  11,  1901,  Mr. 
Joe  Friedman  not  only  present- 
ed the  Col.  Charles  Lewis  Chap- 
ter the  money  with  which  to  pay 
for  their  charter,  but  also  for 
the  purchase  of  their  record 
books  and  proffered  when  a 
monument  was  completed  to 
donate  a  splendid  Band  and 
Speaker's  stand. 

The  State  Gazette  of  March 
11,  1901,  says:  "The  new  com- 
mittee to  be  appointed  should 
first  secure  the  grounds.  This 
would  be  the  beginning  looking 
toward  the  end.  Then  the  old 
building's  could  be  cleared  away, 
grading-  done,  grass  sown,  trees 
set  out  and  the  grounds  beauti- 
fied. These  all  take  time  to 
bring-  them  to  perfection. 
There  is  sufficient  money  all 
ready  subscribed,  tog-ether  with 
wh'at  could  be  secured,  by  pri- 
vate subscription  to  do  this  much 
handsomely.  The  government 
could  then  be  presented  the 
ground  as  a  National  Historic 
Park  and  the  War  Department 
under  the  head  of  Rivers  and 
Harbors  could  be  induced  to 
grade  the  banks  bordering  on 
both  rivers  and  they  would  then 
be  forever  taken  care  of.  Be- 
sides, its  historic  significance,  it 
is  in  point  of  beauty  of  location 
the  most  desirable  site  in  town. 
The  view  is  splendid  from  both 
rivers.  The  view  from  the  sur- 


rounding- hills  is  perfect  and  it 
would  give  strangers  a  different 
opinion  of  the  town  from  the 
ragged  appearance  it  now  has 
from  rail  and  river. 

On  April  18,  1901,  the  newly 
appointed  Monument  Commis- 
sioners gave  bond  before  the 
Mason  County  Court  with  ap- 
proved security  and  when  they 
had  met  for  organization,  John 
P.  Austin  was  elected  President 
and  C.  C.  Bowyer  Treasurer  and 
V.  A.  Lewis  Secretary. 

The  issue  of  May  28,  1901,  of 
the  State  Gazette  says:  "The 
Battle  Monument  Commission 
held  a  meeting  at  the  Merchants 
National  Bank  Saturday  last. 
The  members  composing  the 
commission  Hon.  John  P.  Aus- 
tin, President,  Hon.  V.  A. 
Lewis,  Secretary  and  Hon.  C.  C. 
Bowyer,  Treasurer,  together 
with  other  citizens  and  a  State 
Gazette  Reporter  went  down  to 
the  Kanawha  point  where  had 
stood  the  old  fort  and  where 
some  of  the  heroes  of  the  battle 
of  Point  Pleasant  were  buried 
and  made  a  careful  inspection  of 
the  grounds.  The  public  seem 
generally  united  in  the  belief 
that  this  is  the  proper  place  to 
erect  the  monument  and  it  might 
be  said  that  the  property  bound- 
ed by  Main  and  First  Streets 
and  the  two  rivers  will  be  pur- 
chased shortly  by  the  commis- 
sion provided  the  owners  of  the 


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property  do  not  demand   too   ex- 
orbatant  a  price." 

On  Decoration  Day,  May  30th, 
1901,  for  the  first  time  a  public 
memorial  exercise  was  held, 
whereby  the  graves  of  the  heroes 
of  the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant 
were  decorated,  in  charge 
of 'the  D.  A.  R.  and  G.  A.  R.  so- 
cieties of  the  town.  A  large  con- 
course of  people  attended  the  ex- 
ercises. The  State  Gazette  of 
June  18,  1901,  records  that  John 
D.  McCulloch  had  given  an  op- 
tion on  his  property  on  the  mon- 
ument site  for  $1,000  00;  C.  H. 
Varian  $1,200.00;  Geo.  T.,  Chas. 
and  Henry  Stone  $3,000.00;  Thos. 
Durst  $600.00,  a  total  of  $5,SOO.- 
00,  which  includes  all  the  contem- 
plated territory  needed  except 
the  Geo.  Comstock  property,  up- 
on which  a  price  had  not  been 
agreed." 

Later  Mr.  Comstock's  proper- 
ty was  secured  at  $2,200.00. 

From  the  issue  of  August, 
1901,  of  the  Charleston  Daily 
Mail's  report  of  the  Monument 
Commission,  held  at  that  place 
we  glean  the  following:  "Hon. 
V.  A.  Lewis  reported  that  the 
Commission  had  about  $11,000.00 
in  the  treasury,  but  that  the 
work,  as  planned  would  necessi- 
tate the  expenditure  of  $25,000.- 
00  more."  Speaking  of  the  Bat- 
tle of  Point  Pleasant,  the  Daily 
Mail  quotes  Mr.  Lewis  as  fol- 
lows: "All  careful  painstaking 
thoughtful  historians  have  re- 


garded it  as  the  first  in  the  ser- 
ies of  the  Revolution  which  gave 
the  continent  to  liberty.  It  was 
the  chief  event  of  Dunmore's 
War." 

On  August  29,  1901,  the  State 
Gazette  announced  that  the  Com- 
mittee had  decided  to  commence 
clearing  the  grounds  at  once  and 
that  paper  made  the  first  appeal 
for  the  Celebration  of  the  Battle. 

"It  is  the  intention  that  the 
clearing  of  the  grounds  shall  be 
completed  by  the  anniversary  of 
the  great  battle  of  Point  Pleas- 
ant, Oct.  10,  1774." 

"The  significance  of  the  battle 
has  not  been  wholly  overlooked. 
Thousands  know  of  its  impor- 
tance and  it  remains  for  Point 
Pleasant  herself  to  appreciate 
her  relation  to  history  and  de- 
mand from  the  State  and  from 
Congress  the  substantial  recog- 
nition due  this  spot.  Our  citi- 
zens should  join  in  one  glorious 
celebration  of  this  anniversary 
Oct.  10  .  We  trust  that  there  is 
enough  patriotism  in  the  town 
to  observe  it.  If  in  no  other 
way,  let  it  be  one  grand 
union  picnic.  The  weather  will 
be  fine  and  all  can  come  together 
at  least  in  the  spirit  of  patriotism 
and  good  fellowship". 

Mrs.  Poffenbarger,  editor  of 
the  State  Gazette,  not  only  is- 
sued a  call  for  a  citizen's  meet- 
ing-on  Thursday  night  Septem- 
ber 5th,  looking  toward  the  cele- 
bration, but  she  had  secured  the 


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cooperation  of  Col.  J.  P.  R  B. 
Smith  and,  at  that  meeting  do- 
nated the  services  of  her  paper 
to  advertise  the  meeting-,  supple- 
mented by  a  subscription  secur- 
ed by  her  of  over  S200.00  with 
which  to  begin  the  work.  The 
paper  of  that  issue  contained  the 
following  full  page  advertise- 
ment, besides  the  names  of  the 
donors  of  cash: 

127th  ANNIVERSARY 
The  First  Battle  of  the  Revolu- 
tion to  be  celebrated  at 
POINT   PLEASANT,    W.  VA. 
Thursday  Oct.  10th,  1901. 
Great  National  Speakers 
will  be  present. 

Entertainment  for  the  people. 
Excursions  on  all  railroads  and 
steamboats  will  be  arranged  for. 

The  Old  Log  Mansion  built  in 
1796,  that  has  lived  in  three  cen- 
turies will  be  used  to  exhibit  the 
greatest  lot  of  Historic  Relics 
ever  brought  together  in  West 
Virginia,  outside  the  Historical 
Society  at  Charleston. 

EVERY  ONE  INVITED. 

The  monument  Park  and 
Court  House  yard  will  make  fine 
picnic  grounds. 

Watch  this  space  for  attrac- 
tions as  they  are  secured." 

As  a  result  of  the  meeting  at 
the  court  house  committees  were 
organized  and  Mrs.  Poffenbarger 
participated  in  the  work  of 
all  the  committees.  The  issue 
of  September  19  shows  an  addi- 
tional subscription,  making  a  to- 


tal of  $409.00,  besides  generous 
subscriptions,  of  exhibits  for  the 
museum.  The  children  of  the 
public  schools  contributed  S8.50 
to  be  used  in  decorating  a  wagon 
for  the  parade.  The  newspa- 
pers of  the  country  stood»up  and 
:ook  notice  of  the  big  celebration 
and  helped  advertise  it. 

In  the  issue  of  Oct.  10th,  The 
State  Gazette  announced  the 
presence  of  distinguished  visit- 
ors, among  whom  was  Gen.  C. 
H.  Grosvener  of  Ohio,  faithful 
advocate  for  an  appropriation 
from  Congress  to  commemorate 
the  battle.  Virgil  A.  Lewis,  in 
an  article  published  in  the  State 
Gazette  of  that  date,  said: 

"After  all,  even  though  it  be 
here,  is  it  best  to  assert  without 
reference  to  the  proof  that  the 
battle  of  Point  Pleasant  is  the 
first  battle  of  the  Revolution  and 
then  array  against  us  the  whole 
of  New  England  where  the  peo- 
ple are  jealous  of  the  claims 
of  Lexington.  It  is  easy  to 
make  assertions,  but  to  exam- 
ine hundreds  of  volumes  and  ob- 
tain records  from  both  Europe 
and  America  in  proof  of  the 
same,  is  quite  another  thing. 
Do  not  throw  the  burden  of 
proof  of  this  matter  on  a  com- 
mittee before  a  Congressional 
Committee." 

The  State  Gazette  of  October 
17,  1901,  announced  that  the 
Mansion  House  had  been  turned 
over  to  of  three  ladies  who  had 


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accepted  it  as  a  headquarters 
for  the  Col.  Charles  Lewis  Chap- 
ter D.  A.  R.  Also  that  work  on 
Tu-Endie-Wei  Park  had  been 
discontinued  for  want  of  funds 
and  made  an  appeal  that  the 
Commfssion  set  out  trees  on  the 
edge  of  the  Park  or  permit  the 
citizens  to  do  so.  Also  the  list 
of  subscribers  to  the  expense  of 
the  Celebration. 

While  th.e  following-  is  the  pub- 
lished account  of  the  big  cele- 
bration: 

"THEY  CAME. 
From  Every  Direction. 
Ten  Thousand  People  Celebrat- 
ed the  127th   Anniversary   of  the 
First  Battle  of 
The  Revolution. 
Tu-Endie-Wei  Park. 

On  last  Thursday  the  good 
citizens  of  Point  Pleasant  cele- 
brated the  127th  anniversary  of 
the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  the 
first  battle  of  the  Revolution. 

It  only  needed  for  our  people 
to  arouse  themselves  and  make 
the  effort  to  have  one  of  the  big- 
gest celebrations  ever  held  in  the 
state.  Beside  our  people,  who 
were  for  the  most  part  upon  our 
streets,  enough  more  swelled  the 
crowd  until  we  had  fully  ten 
thousand  celebrating.  Hereto- 
fore, when  we  had  any  demon- 
stration in  the  town,  the  crowd 
was  from  the  Ohio  river  landing 
to  the  Court  House.  This  time 
the  streets  were  crowded  from 


the  Court  House  to  the  Kanawha 
River,  with  fully  five  thousand 
people  upon  the  Park. 

The  K.  &  M.  Railroad  ran  a 
dollar  excursion  from  Athens  to 
this  place,  and  Point  Pleasant 
can  never  forget  the  kindness  of 
that  road.  When  we  solicited 
them  for  a  cheap  rate  they  re- 
plied if  it  would  be  any  accommo- 
dation to  Point  Pleasant  and 
they  only  made  it  pa}'  expense  of 
running  the  train  they  would 
give  it  to  us  to  show  to  Point 
Pleasant  the  kindly  feeling  of 
that  road  toward  our  town. 
They  not  only  gave  us  just  the 
service  we  asked  for  but  they 
put  out  15,000  attractive  hand 
bills  and  advertised  their  rates 
in  the  newspapers  along  the 
route,  and  when  they  came  in 
here  they  brought  us  not  only 
the  Nelsonville  and  Middleport 
bands,  but  they  brought  a  big 
train  packed  with  people  from 
Athens  and  way  stations;  they 
brought  us  Gen.  Chas.  H.  Gros- 
venor,  one  of  the  stalwarts  sons 
of  the  Revolution  who  came  to 
address  our  people  and  promote 
the  success  of  the  day.  The  K. 
&  M.  brought  us  a  train  of  eight 
or  ten  coaches  from  Charleston 
that  had  standing  room  only  and 
while  the  excursion  was  profita- 
ble to  the  K.  &  M.  and  we  are 
glad  it  was,  we  must  not  forget 
that  it  was  run  wholly  to  compli- 
ment Point  Pleasant.  The  con- 
duct of  the  K.  &  M.  was  greatly 


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in  contrast  to  that  of  the  Onio 
River  Division  of  the  B.  &  O.  R. 
R  ,  who  were  importuned  by  let- 
ter, in  person,  and  by  telegraph, 
to  give  us  a  rate,  but  of  no  avail, 
and  notwithstanding  full  fair  was 
charged,  that  road  brought  in 
crowds  of  people  with  a  crowded 
train  from  the  north  aud  stand- 
ing room  only  coming  in  from 
the  south  end.  Steamboats 
brought  in  excursions  and  hacks 
run  between  here  and  Gallipolis 
while  six  hundred  persons  cross- 
ed the  Kanawha  Ferry,  and  as 
many  more  had  to  be  ferried  in 
private  boats  in  harbor.  The 
farmers  came  in  carriages,  bug- 
gies, expresses,  big  wagons, 
horseback  and  on  foot,  any  way 
so  they  came,  and  they  came  as 
a  multitude. 

"Notwithstanding  the  rain,  the 
night  before,  which  was  just 
enough  to  lay  the  dust,  the  sun 
shone  out  about  eight  o'clock 
and  the  day  was  ideal." 

"Never  before  did  the  old  town 
wear  such  a  gala  dress.  Old 
Glory  and  buntings  galore  waved 
from  every  residence  and  busi- 
ness house.  There  was  neither 
the  difference  of  politics  or  reli- 
gion or  even  the  distinction  of 
secret  organizations  to  mar  the 
occasion,  but  all  came  together 
upon  a  common  level  for  one 
grand  glorification  of  the  cele- 
bration of  the  battle,  the  farthest 
reaching  in  its  effect  of  any  bat- 
tle ever  fought  upon  the  Ameri- 


can Continent — the  first  battle  of 
the  Revolution — the  battle  that 
broke  the  power  of  the  red  men 
in  America;  the  battle  that 
brought  the  treaty  that  enabled 
civilization  to  mareh  on  to  the 
west  and  southwest  and  great 
northwest  territory;  the  battle 
that  resulted  in  ceding  to  Vir- 
ginia and  thence  to  the  colonies 
the  great  Northwest;  that  battle 
that  defied  at  its  close  Tory  mis- 
rule, the  first  battle  ever  fought 
after  the  tea  had  been  thrown 
overboard  at  Boston  Harbor  the 
preceding  March.  The  Boston 
Port  Bill,  of  May,  1774,  the  sig- 
nal for  actual  conflict  had  been 
passed.  The  House  of  Burges- 
ses, of  Virginia,  had  declared 
the  first  of  June  of  that  year  to 
be  "A  day  of  fasting,  imploring 
the  Divine  interposition  to  avert 
the  heavy  calamity  which  threat- 
ened destruction  to  their  civil 
rights  and  the  evils  of  a  civil 
war."  Massachusetts  had  pas- 
sed resolutions  deploring  the  op- 
pression of  Great  Britain. 
Patrick  Henry  had  made  his 
famous  speech  before  the  House 
of  Burgesses,  of  Virginia,  de- 
claring that  "The  war  is  inevita- 
ble, and  let  it  come,"  and  asked 
"Is  life  so  dear  or  peace  so  sweet 
as  to  be  purchased  at  the  price 
of  chains  and  slavery?" 

"England,  too,  recognized  be- 
fore the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant 
that  the  war  was  inevitable,  and 
determined  to  keep  the  colonists 


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so  busy  defending  themselves 
from  hostile  Indians  armed  with 
English  muskets  and  English 
amunition,  that  they  would 
have  no  time  to  think  of  the 
wrongs  inflicted  upon  them  by 
the  mother  country.  Great 
Britain  never  had  a  better  tool 
than  Lord  Dunmore,  the  Tory 
Governor  of  Virginia,  as  his  sub- 
sequent conduct  proved.  Hence, 
the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  (in 
which  Lord  Dunmore  intended 
the  flower  of  the  Colonial  Army 
of  Virginia  to  be  destroyed  but 
which,  victorious  to  his  surprise) 
became  the  first  battle  in  which 
the  blood  of  patriots  was  spilled 
upon  American  soil  for  the  cause 
of  National  Independence,  and 
was  so  credited  by  Alexander  S. 
Withers,  in  his  chronicles  of 
Border  warfare,  later  by  Ban- 
croft, the  Government  historian, 
by  President  Rosevelt,  in  his 
"Winning  the  West,"  and  by 
many  other  historians,  of  repute. 

Is  it  any  wonder  that  we  point 
with  pride  to  this  battle  and  in- 
vited the  whole  country  to  cele- 
brate with  us? 

"At  ten  o'clock  the  parade  be- 
gan to  form  on  First  Street  and 
it  was  of  such  magnitude  that  it 
took  Col.  J.  P.  R.  B.  Smith,  the 
Grand  Marshall  of  the  day,  and 
his  corps  of  splendid  assistants, 
an  hour  to  get  them  all  in  line 
ready  for  march.  It  was  headed 
by  James  Somerville,  of  Pleasant 
Flats,  dressed  as  Uucle  Sam, 


(and  in  face  and  figure  he  is  typi- 
cal of  the  figurative  head  of  the 
nation,)  all  the  city  fathers,  ex- 
cept Mayor  Somerville,  who  act- 
ed as  a  marshall,  were  in  the 
parade  in  carriages,  The  fire 
department  were  out  with  their 
wagon  decorated.  There  were 
floats  galore,  put  in  by  the  busi- 
ness men  of  the  town,  vying 
with  each  other  to  see  which 
could  make  the  finest  display. 
The  three  splendid  bands, 
Cheshire,  Middleport  and  Nel- 
sonville,  discoursed  sweet  music 
along  the  route  and  the  children 
of  the  white  schools  marching  in 
line  wearing  bouteniers  of  na- 
tional colors,  waving  flags,  which 
little  girls  representing  "the 
states  and  territories,  an  d  the 
colored  children  on  a  wagon 
beautifully  decorated  made  the 
prettiest '  parade  ever  seen  in 
Point  Pleasant. 

What  might  have  been  a  seri- 
ous accident,  but  proved  to  be  a 
fortunate  escape,  occured  when 
a  wagon  with  103  children  on  it 
passed  over  a  culvert  on  14th 
Street.  The  culvert  went  down 
and  the  top  of  the  wagon  was 
separated  in  the  lunge  from  the 
platform  and  the  children  were 
precipated  to  the  ground. 
Fortunately  no  one  was  hurt  and 
the  procession  proceeded  down 
Main  Street  to  First,  the  chil- 
dren falling  in  line  with  the 
others  in  the  line  of  march, 
where  they  disbanded  Three 


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open  air  concerts  were  given 
from  1  to  2  o'clock,  when  the 
speaking  began  from  a  platform 
at  the  grounds  recently  purchas- 
ed as  a  site  for  a  monument  yet 
to  be  arected.  The  grounds  are 
situated  at  the  junction  of  the 
Kanawha  and  Ohio  Rivers,  with- 
out doubt  the  most  beautiful  site 
for  a  park  on  the  Ohio  river." 

The  large  audience  was  called 
to  order  by  Col.  J.  P.  R.  B. 
Smith,  who  called  our  distin- 
guished fellow  townsmen,  Hon. 
C.  E.  Hogg  to  the  chair.  Mr. 
Hogg  in  his  usual  pleasing  man- 
ner did  the  honors  of  the  occa- 
sion with  credit  to  himself  and 
to  Point  Pleasant.  Mr.  Hogg 
then  introduced  Mrs.  Livia 
Simpson-Poffenbarger,  Regent 
of  Col.  Chas.  Lewis  Chapter  of 
the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution,  who  had  been  desig- 
nated by  her  Chapter  to  dedicate 
and  name  the  park  which  she  did 
in  a  short  address,  as  follows: 

"Mr.  Chairman,  Ladies  and 
Gentleman: 

It  has  been  deemed  fitting  and 
appropriate,  that,  by  some 
means  this  beautiful  and  historic 
spot  of  ground  be  dedicated  to 
the  noble  purpose  for  which  it 
has  been  purchased,  and  given  a 
name  by  which  it  may  be  known 
in  the  future.  The  important 
duty  has  not  been  sought  by  the 
organization  I  have  the  honor  to 
represent.  I  wish  to  emphasize 
the  fact,  without  going  into  ex- 


planation or  detail,  that  it  has 
been  rather  thrust  upon  us.  We 
are  simply  doing  that  which  has 
been  denied  to  others  who  have 
been  invited  to  do  it,  by  their 
situation  and  present  circum- 
stances. We  have  accepted  the 
trust  and  assumed  the  duty  in 
the  absence  of  others  who  might, 
and  we  sincerely  believe,  would 
have  preformed  it  better. 

However,  I  wish  to  premise 
that  it  is  not  at  all  unappropriate 
that  the  Society  of  the  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution  per- 
form this  most  important  func- 
tion. Ours  is  purely  a  patriotic 
organization  and  our  work  is 
carried  on  in  the  name  of  patri 
otism  and  inspired  by  love  of 
country.  The  objects  and  pur- 
poses of  our  society  are  set  forth 
in  our  constitution,  Article  1,  as 
follows: 

(1)  "To  perpetuate  the  mem- 
ory of  the  spirit  of  the  men  and 
women  who  achieved  American 
Independence,  by  the  acquisition 
and  protection  of  historical  spots, 
and  the  erection  of  monuments; 
by  the  encouragement  to  histori- 
cal research  in  relation  to  the 
Revolution  and  the  publication  of 
its  results;  by  the  preservation 
of  documents  and  relics  and  of 
the  records  of  individual  services 
of  Revolutionary  soldiers  and  pa- 
triots, and  by  the  promotion  of 
celebrations  of  all  patriotic  anni- 
versaries. 
•  (2)  To  carry  out  the  injunc- 


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tion  of  Washington  in  his  fare- 
well address  to  the  American 
people,  "To  promote  as  an  ob- 
ject of  primary  importance,  in- 
stitutions for  the  general  diffu- 
sion of  knowledge,"  thus  devel- 
oping an  enlightened  opinion, 
and  affording  to  young  and  old 
such  advantages  as  shall  develop 
in  them  the  largest  capacity  for 
performing  the  duties  of  Ameri- 
can citizens. 

(3)  To  cherish,  maintain,  and 
to  extend  the  institutions  of 
American  freedom,  to  foster 
true  patriotism  and  love  of  coun- 
try and  to  aid  in  securing  for 
mankind  all  the  blessings  of  lib- 
erty." 

"Another  thing  I  wish  to  im- 
press upon  all  here  to-day  is  the 
fact  that  ours  is  the  only  society 
professing  to  be  founded  exclu- 
sively upon  our  Revolutionary 
struggle  that  recognizes  the  Bat- 
tle of  Point  Pleasant  as  a  part  of 
the  war  for  American  indepen- 
dence. Reputable  historians,  in- 
cluding Bancroft,  President 
Roosevelt  and  others  have  as- 
serted that  it  was  the  initial,  the 
first  battle  of  the  Revolutionary 
war.  Moreover,  they  have  pro- 
duced the  indisputable  evidence 
upon  which  the  assertion  is  bas- 
ed. What  the  concensus  of 
American  opinion  will  be  as  the 
years  shall  roll  on  and  historical 
research  shall  bring  to  light  the 
whole  truth,  we  cannot  say.  If 
the  verdict  shall  be  the  affirma-' 


tive  of  that  proposition  then  the 
first  battle  shall  not  be  lacking 
in  display  of  heroism  and  pa- 
triotism, exhibited  in  the  midst 
of  an  almost  interminable  wilder- 
ness and  hand  to  hand  with  a 
savage  and  at  the  same  time 
valorous  foe." 

"The  memory  of  that  great 
struggle,  will  we  think,  be  well 
and  fittingly  preserved  upon 
these  grounds.  A  splendid  and 
enduring  monument  is  to  be 
erected  commemorative  of  the 
battle.  On  some  part  of  it  will 
be  a  bronze  statute  of  the  heroic 
Andrew  Lewis,  the  commanding 
general.  On  it  will  be  inscribed 
in  imperishable  letters  the 
names  of  the  brave  Col.  Chas. 
Lewis  and  Col.  Fields  and  all 
those  who  fell  with  them  in  de- 
fense of  liberty  and  the  homes  of 
our  race.  On  these  grounds 
will  be  laid  down  and  preserved 
the  outlines  of  old  Fort  Ran- 
dolph. 

Without  some  reference  to  the 
stubborn  foe  which  drew  the 
brilliant  flash  of  fire  from  the 
steel  of  these  heroes,  in  the 
shades  of  primeval  forests,  far 
from  the  abode  of  any  white 
man,  this  history  written  in 
grounds,  stone,  marble  and 
bronze  would  be  incomplete. 
The  red  men  were  fighting  for 
their  homes  and  hunting 
grounds.  From  their  stand- 
point, their  conduct  was  patri- 


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otic.  They  were  defending  the 
graves  of  their  fathers." 

•'To  the  end,  therefore,  that 
history,  as  far  as  possible,  may 
be  fully  preserved  and  patri- 
otism, in  its  broadest  sense  may 
be  recognized,  it  has  been  decid- 
ed to  give  this  park  the  oldest 
— first  name  it  has  ever  been 
known  to  possess — its  Indian 
name.  By  authority  of  the  Mon- 
ument Commission  appointed  by 
the  Governor  of  this  state,  and 
in  the  name  of  the  Society  of  the 
Daughters  of  the  American  Rev- 
olution, we  now  dedicate  this 
park,  the  property  of  the  State 
of  West  Virginia,  to  patriotism 
and  the  preservation  of  history 
and  name  it  "Tu-Endie-Wei 
Park;"  which  signifies  in  the 
Shawnee  tongue  "the  mingling  of 
waters,"  this  being  the  junc- 
tion of  two  rives." 

Mr.  Hogg  next  introduced  Col. 
Bennett  H.  Young,  of  Louisville, 
Ky.,  who  had  been  previously  in- 
vited to  address  the  Assembly, 
and  no  happier  selection  could 
have  been  made.  The  people  as 
a  unit  fell  in  love  with  the  man. 
He  talked  directly  to  their  hearts, 
and  we  fortunately  secured  his 
speech  which  is  reproduced  in 
this  issue  of  the  State  Gazette. 
Col.  Young  also  loaned,  for  the 
occasion,  his  pioneer  suit,  which 
consisted  of  a  hunting  shirt  and 
flint  lock  gun  which  bad  belong- 
ed to  Daniel  Boone,  which  he 
had  completed  by  the  addition  of 


a  "long  knife,"  leather  breetches 
and  a  coon  skin  cap.  Herman 
Snyder  was  selected  to  wear  the 
suit,  beingsmooth  shaved  and  cor- 
responding in  weight  and  height 
to  Daniel  Boone." 

"Col.  Young  was  followed  by 
our  poet  laureate,  Louis  Reed 
Campbell,  who  recited  in  splen- 
did style  his  poem,  written  for 
the  occasion: 

OUR  HEROES. 

Grave  by  grave,  where  the  rivers  meet,  and 

gently  flow. 

The  patriot  sleeps,  and  by  his  side  a  van- 
quished silent  foe. 

Year  on  year  with  wondrous  swiftness  glid- 
ed by. 

And  yet  no  stone  was  reared  where  brave 
men  dared  to  die 

Time's  hand  was  in  the  game  that  drove  the 

Indian  from  his  land. 
In  it  the  shadow  of  a  wrong  that  greed 

could  not  withstand, 
More  than  a  century  gone  ere  right  doth  o'er 

wrong  prevail, 
Alike    we    honor,    now,     who    faced    the 

feathered  shaft  and  rifles'  deadly  hail. 

Departed  chief  tan  of  a  mighty  race,  so  soon 

to  disappear! 
What  does  the  future  hold, save  memory, 

softened  by  a  tear? 
For  even  now  adown  the  changing  slope  of 

fleeting  time 

The  painted  warrior  glides  away,  to  leave 
no  trail  behind. 

No  power  can  dim  the  luster  now  of  that  vic- 
torious band, 

Who  fought  and    fell   and    tired    again 
where  now  we  stand. 

If  fairness  to  the  foe  is  due,  what  honor  must 
be  theirs. 

Whose  names    too    sacred    for    an  eulogy, 
drift  upward  with  our  prayers." 

The  following  is  taken  from 
the  Point  Pleasant  Observer  of 
October  17,  1901,: 

"TU-ENDIE-WEI  PARK." 
A  Great  Outpouring-  of  the  Peo- 
ple at  ,„  its    Dedication    Last 
Thursday.     A  Gala  Day 

For  Point  Pleasant. 
"We   have  not  space    to  tell  of 
the  big  celebration  on  Thursday 
the  10th.     This  means  that  if  we 


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were  to  take  up  every  inch  of 
space  in  the  whole  paper  we 
could  not  tell  all  about  it.  So  we 
will  have  to  tell  a  little  about  it 
and  let  the  rest  go." 

"Day  dawned  bright  and  clear 
with  never  a  cloud  to  remind  one 
of  the  little  sprinkle  of  the  night 
before,  The  town  was  pro- 
fuselv  decorated  with  flags  and 
bunting.  The  first  signal  ot 
the  coming  dawn  was  announc- 
ed by  the  watchman  on  the 
site  of  Old  fort  Randolph,  who 
was  in  charge  of  the  relics,  firing 
the  morning  gun.  Immediatley 
after  this  the  church  bells  begun 
to  ring,  say  at  5  o'clock,  and  the 
mill  whistles  and  those  of  the 
steamboats  began  to  blow  until 
not  only  everybody  in  town, 
but  every  one  within  five  miles 
of  the  town,  was  wide  awake. 

By  eight  o'clock,  the  country 
people  were  pouring  into  town 
in  streams  from  every  direction. 
All  roads  led  to  Point  Pleasant 
and  all  roads  were  full.  At  half 
past  nine  the  trains  began  to 
pour  their  loads  into  town  and 
by  10  o'clock  the  crowd  was  var- 
iously estimated  from  6,000  to 
10,000  people.  At  10  o'clock 
Col.  J.  P.  R.  B.  Smith  began  to 
form  the  huge  mass  of  people  in- 
to a  line  of  march  and  even  with 
his  able  assistants  it  was  an 
Herculean  task.  Finally  the 
parade  was  formed  and  headed 
by  Col.  James  Somerville  and  a 
platoon  of  police  followed  by 


Grand  Marshall  J.  P.  R.  B. 
Smith,  the  large  procession  mov- 
ed over  the  principal  streets  of 
the  town  and  at  last  ended  at  the 
beautiful  park  at  the  junction  of 
the  two  rivers." 

"The  parade  consisted  of  the 
town  officers  in  carriages,  citi- 
zens in  carriages,  citizens  on 
horseback,  people  on  foot,  the 
children  of  the  public  schools, 
both  white  and  colored,  some  in 
wagons  and  some  on  foot,  with 
three  brass  bands,  interspersed 
at  regular  intervals,  and  all  in- 
terspersed with  display  made 
by  our  merchants  until  the 
whole  presented  a  scene  of  beau- 
ty. Merchants  from  other  towns 
who  inform  the  newspaper  peo- 
ple of  Point  Pleasant  that  it  does 
no  good  to  advertise  here  were 
also  glad  to  have  a  place  in  the 
big  parade  and  were  not  asham- 
ed to  be  the  lustiest  how.lers  for 
Point  Pleasant's  big  day." 

After  the  people  had  gotten 
something  to  eat  they  again  as- 
sembled at  the  park  and  were 
called  to  order  by  J.  P.  R.  B. 
Smith  who  called  Hon.  C.  E. 
Hogg  one  of  this  district's  dis- 
tinguished ex-corigressmen  to 
the  chair.  Mr.  Hogg  after  a 
short  but  eloquent  address  in- 
troduced Mrs.  George  Poffen- 
barger,  Regent  of  Col.  Chas. 
Lewis  chapter  of  the  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution  who, 
in  a  short  address,  and  by  au- 
thority of  the  Monument  Com- 


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missions  named  the  beautiful  plot 
of  ground  "Tue-Endie-Wei" 
Park,  "Tue-Endie-Wei"  in  the 
Sbawnee  language  meaning 
"'the  mingling  of  the  waters." 

Chairman  Hogg  next  introduc- 
ed Col.  Bennet  H.  Young  of 
Louisville,  Ky.,  after  which 
Louis  Reed  Campbell  recited  an 
original  poem  written  for  the  oc- 
casion entitled  "Our  Heroes." 
Next  followed  Gen.  Chas.  H. 
Grosvener,  of  Ohio,  who  deliver- 
ed a  characteristic  Grosvener  ad- 
dress. The  program  of  the  day 
was  concluded  by  the  burial  of 
the  remains  of  "MAD  ANN 
BAILEY,"  which  had  been  dis- 
interred from  their  resting  place 
of  76  years  and  brought  here  for 
burial,  thus  carrying  out  her  de- 
sire, expressed  more  than  three 
quarters  of  a  century  ago,  to  be 
buried  on  Virginia  soil." 

"The  museum  contained  large 
number  of  historic  relics  which 
held  the  interest  of  the  vast 
crowd  from  early  morn  to  the 
leaving  time  of  the  late  train  and 
steamboat  in  the  evening." 

The  Huntington  Advertiser  of 
October  11,  1901,  said. 

"The  Huntingtonians  who  vis- 
ited Point  Pleasant  yesterday 
returned  last  evening  happy 
over  the  exercises  of  the  day." 

"It  was  the  proudest  and  most 
memorable  in  the  life  of  that  his- 
toric  community.      Amid  anas 
sembly  of  ten  thousand  persons, 


many  of  whom  had  come  half 
way  across  the  continent  to  be 
present,  the  beautiful  grove  at 
the  junction  of  the  Kanawha  and 
Ohio  rivers,  was  for  ever  dedicat- 
ed to  the  memory  of  the  gallant 
Virginians  who,  one  hundred 
and  twenty-seven  years  ago, 
gave  to  the  world  the  first  mani- 
festation of  that  valor,  which  in 
after  years,  broke  the  power  of 
Great  Britain  and  made  this  con- 
tinent the  abiding  place  of  civil 
liberty." 

"No  spot  in  the  Ohio  valley  is 
so  full  of  historical  significance 
as  the  old  town  of  Point  Pleasant. 
No  spot  will  be  more  beautiful 
when  the  towering  granite  shaft, 
to  be  erected  at  an  estimated 
cost  of  forty  thousand  dollars, 
shall  greet  the  eye  of  the  strang- 
er as  he  approaches  this  true 
cradle  of  American  liberty." 

Quoting  from  the  Gallia  Times 
of  October  9th,  we  find. 

"Much  interest  is  being  taken 
by  the  Point  Pleasant  people  in 
the  coming  anniversary  of  the 
Indian  battle  fought  there. 
This  was  on  October  10,  1774,  or 
127  years  ago,  and,  on  this  day 
the  power  of  the  Red  Men  in  the 
Kanawha  and  Ohio  Valleys  was 
wrested  from  them.  The  day 
should  long  be  remembered  and 
we  believe  will  be  fittingly  cele- 
brated by  our  neighbor  city." 

The  Gallipolis  Journal  of  Octo- 
ber 9th,  said. 


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"BATTLE 
Of  Point   Pleasant  will  be 

Celebrated  on 
Thursday  next." 

"Our  neighbors  across  the 
river  are  making  extensive  prep- 
arations for  the  celebration  of 
the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  the 
first  conflict  of  the  Revolution- 
on  Thursday  Oct.  10.  It  was  in 
1774  that  the  most  desperate  In- 
dian battle  on  record  was  fought 
between  the  confederated  Indian 
tribes,  under  the  celebrated 
chief.  Cornstalk,  and  the  Vir- 
ginia Militia  under  command 
of  Gen.  Andrew  Lewis." 

"There  will  be  a  relic  display 
and  a  big  parade.  The  old  log 
mansion  that  has  stood  in  three 
centuries  will  be  among  the 
other  relics  of  primitive  days. 
Gen.  Grosvener  and  Col.  Bennett 
Young,  of  Louisville,  one  of  Ken- 
tucky's most  magnetic  speakers. 
will  be  present  at  the  celebration. 
The  remains  of  Ann  Bailey,  the 
heroine  of  the  revolution,  have 
been  disinterred  and  will  be  con- 
signed to  their  new  resting  place 
on  Thursday.  There  will  be 
three  bands  and  a  most  interest- 
ing program  and  the  10th  prom- 
ises to  be  an  eventful  day  at 
Point  Pleasant" 

The  following  is  from  the 
Weekly  Register,  of  Point  Pleas- 
ant, W.  Va.,  under  date  of  Oc- 
ober  17,  1901. 

"THE  CELEBRATION. 
Of  the  One  Hundred  and   Twen- 


ty-Seventh Anniversary  of  the 
Battle  of  Point  Pleasant.  Thous- 
ands of  Visitors  Within  our 
Gates.  The  Celebration  a  Suc- 
cess in  Every  Particular  and  the 
day  will  be  long  remembered  by 
all  present." 

"Despite  the  cloudy  weather 
and  rain  of  Wednesday,  Thurs- 
day morning,  October  10th,  1901, 
dawned  with  the  old  Sol,  and  a 
twinkle  in  his  eye,  to  the  gratifi- 
cation of  the  committees  in 
charge  and  the  citizens  of  our 
little  city  in  general,  for  clear 
and  favorable  weather  meant  for 
the  celebration  of  the  first  battle 
of  the  Revolution,  (fought  at 
Point  Pleasant  on  October  10, 
1774,  between  the  whites  under 
command  of  Colonel  Charles 
Lewis,  aud  the  Indians,)  un- 
bounded and  unprecedented  suc- 
cess. 

The  committees  in  charge  of 
this,  the  127th  anniversary  of 
this  great  battle,  have  been  earn- 
est workers  to  accomplish  this 
end,  and  deserve  much  credit  for 
their  untiring  efforts. 

The  genial  Marshall  in  chief, 
Colonel  J.  P.  R.  B.  Smith  and  his 
assistants,  handled  the  big 
parade  which  was  formed  in  the 
first  ward  in  a  manner  credita- 
ble to  a  general  with  an  army  of 
100,000. 

In  the  parade  was  a  represen- 
tation of  all  our  business  people, 
the  children  of  our  public  schools 
turning  out  in  full,  dressed  in 


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national  colors,  companies  of 
horsemen,  the  fire  department, 
the  hook  and  ladder  company, 
and  everything  and  every  body 
to  make  up  a  grand  trades  dis- 
play the  like  of  which  has  never 
before  been  seen  in  Point  Pleas- 
ant." 

"To  say  the  town  wasgaly  dec- 
orated with  bunting,  flags,  &c., 
is  not  necessary,  for  the  emblem 
of  our  great  nation  was  never  so 
profusely  displayed  as  on  this 
occasion." 

"The  park  at  the  confluence  of 
the  Ohio  and  Kanawha  rivers 
where  the  monument  to  com- 
memorate this  great  battle  will 
be  erected,  has  been  put  in  the 
best  proper  shape,  and  was 
thronged  with  visitors  and  sight- 
seers throughout  the  day." 

"The  old  house,  considerably 
over  a  hundred  years  old,  which 
was  converted  into  a  museum 
and  filled  with  relics,  was  the 
most  interesting  feature  of  the 
occasion." 

"The  ladies  in  charge  of  the 
museum  are  commended  by  our 
citizens  and  visitors  upon  the 
manner  in  which  this  "relic 
store"  was  conducted,  and  the 
courtesies  accorded  all." 

"A  collection  of  relics,  such  as 
Indian  implements  of  warfare, 
old  pictures,  dishes,  dresses, 
jewelry  and  many  other  articles 
too  numerous  to  mention,  are 
not  seen  by  one  generation  more 


than  once,  and  one  who  missed 
this  treat  is  at  loss  to  know  or 
conceive  the  manner  in  which 
these  old  settlers  lived  and  had 
their  being.  Bands  of  music  de- 
lighted the  visitors  and  the  day 
was  one  of  joy  from  morning  un- 
til night.  The  crowd  was  order- 
ly well  behaved  and  jolly.  No 
congregation  of  human  beings 
had  a  more  joyous  time  for  one 
day,  than  did  this  one." 

"After  the  parade,  which  mov- 
ed at  noon,  and  which  was  never 
surpassed  as  a  trades  display  in 
this  place,  had  disbanded  and 
the  throng  of  people  had  dined, 
the  speaking  at  the  park  began." 

"Hon.  Chas.  E.  Hogg,  one  of 
West  Virginia's  most  eloquent 
orators,  had  charge  of  the  cere- 
monies at  the  speaker's  stand, 
and  his  introductory  remarks" 
were  well  received.  Mr.  Hogg 
never  fails  to  please  and  enlight- 
en his  hearer,  and  at  the  conclu- 
sion of  his  remarks  introduced 
Mrs.  Judge  Poffenbarger,  who 
opened  the  speaking  with  an  ad- 
dress listened  to  by  the  throng 
of  people  with  marked  attention, 
and  which  was  eloquent  and  in- 
structive." 

"Col.  Bennett  Young,  of  Jassa- 
mine  County,  Kentucky,  mem- 
ber of  Congress  from  his  dis- 
trict, was  introduced  and  to  say 
his  address  was  eloquent,  logical 
and  interesting,  is  but  a  triffle, 
for  the  marked  attention  of  his 
hearers  was  undisturbed.  He 


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is  a  fluent  speaker  and  one  would 
never  tire  listening  to  him." 

"Next  to  be  introduced  was  Mr. 
Lewis  Reed  Campbell,  who  re- 
cited a  beautiful  poem  entitled 
"Our  Heroes."  This  was  one 
of  the  most  beautiful,  and  being 
prepared  as  it  was,  only  a  few 
hours  before  the  hour  for  deliv- 
ery, places  our  young  friend  at 
the  maximum.  The  manner  in 
which  this  beautiful  poem  was 
delivered  was  pleasing  in  the  ex- 
treme and  delighted  the  im- 
mense crowd  who  listened  with 
marked  attention." 

"Gen.  Chas.  H.  Grosvener,  of 
Ohio,  was  next  introduced,  who 
made,  as  all  know,  an  address 
second  to  none.  The  General 
is  one  of  Ohio's  influential  and 
honored  sons,  and  when  he  ap- 
peared on  the  speaker's  stand,  a 
smile  of  pleasure  and  gratifica- 
tion covered  every  face  in  the 
audience.  General  Grosvener's 
remarks  were  listened  to  atten- 
tively, and  his  eulogy  to  our 
martyred  President,  was  pa- 
thetic. Concluding  his  remarks, 
General  Grosvener  said  it  would 
be  well  for  Great  Britain,  had 
she  a  commander  like  "Corn- 
stalk" at  the  head  of  her  forces 
in  South  Africa,  which  was  met 
with  a  round  of  applause." 

"Space  and  time  will  not  permit 
us  to  report  this  celebration  as 
we  would  like  to,  but  those  who 
were  here  had  a  good  time,  en- 
joyed themselves  and  left  our 


little   city   with  the  wish  to  soon 
return." 

"The  short-comings  of  our  re- 
port of  this  big  day  are  attribut- 
ed to  the  absence  of  the  editor  in 
chief,  and  had  he  been  at  the 
helm,  our  "chases"  would  not 
have  held  the  flow  from  his  pen 
and  our  "machines"  would  have 
been  sorely  overtaxed." 

The  Mail  Tribune,  Charleston, 
W.  Va.,  Oct.  12,  1901,  says: 
"POINT  PLEASANT 
Celebrates    Important   Anniver- 
sary.    Remarkable    Demon- 
stration in  Honor 

of  the 

Famous  Battle. 

Col.  Bennet   Young,   of  Ky.,  and 
Gen.  Grosvener,  of  Ohio, 
Principal  Speakers." 

"Point  Pleasant,  W.  Va  ,  Oct. 
10th,  1901  was  the  proudest 
and  most  memorable  in  the 
life  of  this  historic  community. 
Before  an  assembly  of  10,000 
persons,  many  of  whom  had 
come  half  way  across  the  conti- 
nent to  be  present,  when  the 
beautiful  grounds  at  the  junc- 
ture of  the  Kanawha  and  Ohio 
rivers  was  for  ever  dedicated  to 
the  memory  of  the  gallant  Vir- 
ginians, who,  127  years  ago 
gave  the  first  manifestation 
of  that  valor  which,  in  after 
years,  broke  the  power  of 
Great  Britain  and  made  this 
continent  the  abiding  place  of 
civil  liberty." 

"No  spot  in  the  Ohio  Valley  is 


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so  full  of  historic  significance  as 
this  old  town  of  Point  Pleasant, 
and  no  spot  will  be  more  beauti- 
ful when  the  towering-  granite 
shaft  to  be  erected  at  an  estimate 
of  $50,000.00,  shall  greet  the  eye 
uf  the  stranger  as  he  approaches 
this  true  cradle  of  liberty." 

"Gen.  Chas.  H.  Gresvener,  of 
Ohio,  in  his  speech,  said  in  part: 

"It  is  pleasant  on  this  October 
day  to  reflect  that  here  on  the 
banks  of  the  beautiful  Ohio, 
then  so  remote  from  the  center 
and  homes  of  our  ancestors  as  to 
be  terra  incognita  to  the  peo- 
ple of  our  country  and  of  the 
world  there  should  have  been 
struck  that  which  turned  out  to 
be  the  first  great  blow  for  Ameri- 
can Independence  and  American 
Liberty.  Figure  it  as  you  may, 
the  battle  whose  anniversary  we 
here  today  celebrate  was  the 
first  real  blow  of  the  Revolution- 
ary War.  Nobody  so  understood 
it.  Grant  that;  who  understood 
what  was  to  flow  from  Lexington 
or  Concord  or  even  from  Bunker 
Hill?  What  was  the  name  of  the 
man  who  foresaw  when  the 
spring  time  grass  of  Massachu- 
setts was  reddened  with  the 
blood  of  patriots  at  Lexington 
that  the  blood  was  to  sanctify 
the  soil  and  result  in  the  rights 
of  the  people  for  self  govern- 
ment. Lord  Dunmore  was  loyal 
to  the  source  from  which  he  de- 
rived his  official  dignity  and 
official  position.  He  was  how- 


ever, as  appears  by  the  records, 
not  quite  the  open  manly  frank 
man  that  Americans  love  to  rec- 
ognize and  honor.  When  he 
came  to  the  mouth  of  the  Big 
Hock-hocking  river,  under  prom- 
ise to  join  the  troops  that  he 
supposed  were  subordinate  to 
him,  he  failed  to  join  them  for 
the  manifest  purpose  of  weaken- 
ing their  forces  and  thus  enable 
the  Indians  to  overcome  the  set- 
tlers. While  he  was  not  acting 
that  manly,  o  p  e.n  and  above 
board  part  which  Americans  love 
to  honor  and  recognize,  but  if 
the  reports  are  true  and  conclu- 
sions are  allowable,  Lord  Dun- 
more  was  guilty  of  an  act  of  the 
basest  treachery  and  a  manifest 
purpose  of  the  most  inhuman 
outrage.  But  it  cannot  be  lost 
sight  of  that  even  in  this,  shame- 
ful as  his  conduct  was,  he  was 
acting  in  furtherance  of  his  pur- 
poses to  aid  the  government  to 
which  he  owed  allegiance.  It 
may  be  that  in  his  horoscope  he 
saw  the  coming  of  the  overthrow 
of  British  power  in  the  colonies 
and  the  organization  of  a  new 
government  and  the  stripping  of 
the  British  Crown  of  all  it  held 
so  dear  in  the  United  States. 
However,  much  we  may  con- 
demn, from  the  standpoint  of 
our  own  sympathy,  all  and  sin- 
gular in  their  behalf,  there  is 
nevertheless  more  or  less  of  mi- 
tigation of  wrong  and  treachery 
and  double  dealing  in  the  fact 


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that  he  was  doing  it  all  in  behalf 
of  the  country  and  sovereignty  to 
which  he  owed  allegiance.  The 
colonies  were  proposing  to  fight 
for  mitigation  of  the  wrongs  of 
unequal  and  unjust  taxation  and 
the  refusal  to  them  of  the  right 
of  representation  in  the  British 
law  making  body  and  yet  out  of 
that  little  movement  which  I 
have  shown  was  only  for  the 
mitigation  of  wrong,  came  this 
the  great  idea,  so  suddenly  de- 
veloped, of  independence,  and 
from  it  has  come  all  the  glory  of 
a  mighty  and  united  country." 

While  William  Hunter,  an  em- 
inent Ohio  writer,  of  the  Chili- 
cothie  Advertiser,  says: 

"It  give  us  pleasure  to  note 
that  the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant 
is  called  the  first  battle  of  the 
Revolutionary  War  by  tohse  who 
are  celebrating  the  anniversary, 
although  questioned  by  New  En- 
gland historians  who  seem  to  be 
lieve  that  the  whole  war  was 
fought  in  a  radius  of  twenty  miles 
of  Boston,  and  the  most  has  been 
made  of  every  little  skirmish  in 
that  region,  while  the  battles  in 
the  Western  country  are  not 
even  mentioned." 

State   Historian   V.  A.  Lewis 
again  says,  in  the  West   Virginia 
Historical  Magazine,    of  the  bat 
tie. 

"It  is  the  greatest  event  in  the 
colonial  period  and  stands  just 
at  its  close.  With  it  the  Revolu- 
tionary Period  begins.  Hence 


the  battle  is  as  it  were  the  con- 
necting link  between  two  of  the 
great  periods  in  all  American 
History.  Closing  as  it  does  the 
one,  and  opening  the  other. 

Edward  Ingle,  writing  in  the 
Manufacturer's  Record,  in  No- 
vember, 1901,  on  the  Preserva- 
tion of  Virginia's  Antiquities, 
says: 

"Andrew  Lewis,  not  a  Virgin- 
ian, but  yet  a  type  of  the  rear- 
guard of  the  Revolution,  fought 
successfully  at  Point  Pleasant 
in  1774,  that  which  was  really  the 
first  battle  of  that  struggle  and  a 
battle  far  reaching  in  its  signifi- 
cant results." 

While  a  bill  introduced  by  Sen- 
ator Scott  passed  the  Senate  in 
1905,  carrying  an  appropriation, 
Senator  Scott  wrote  and  offered 
his  personal  check  for  one  thous- 
and dollars  with  which  to  erect 
• 

the  monument  if  the  commission 
would  abandon  the  idea  of  secur- 
ing aid  from  the  National  Con- 
gress. A  hasty  conference  of 
friends  of  the  movement  was 
held  and  the  offer  declined,  as 
the  agitators  of  the  monument 
building  were  not  only  anxious 
that  the  Government  should  ap- 
propriate adequate  funds,  but 
that  it  should  officially  recognize 
the  battle  as  one  of  those  of  the 
Revolution;  so  the  offer  of  Sena- 
tor Scott  was  politely  declined. 
Congressman  Hughes  pressed 
the  passage  of  the  bill  at  that 
time  in  the  lower  house  of  Con- 


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gress.  Hon.  J.  T.  McCleary, 
Chairman  of  the  Committee  to 
which  .the  bill  was  referred, 
wrote  a  letter  to  Mr.  Hughes,  as 
follows: 

"As  I  advised  you  yesterday, 
the  committee  adopted  a  policy 
more  than  a  year  ago  as  its  policy 
for  this  Congress,  that  of  making 
no  appropriations  for  monuments 
to  be  erected  outside  of  Washing- 
ton." 

The  monument  commission  as- 
sisted by  Mrs.  Poffenbarger, 
then  hastened  to  Charleston, 
where  the  Legislature  was  then 
in  session,  and  the  Charleston 
Mail  gives,  in  part,  the  following: 

"Mrs.  Livia  Simpson-Poffen- 
barger  arrived  here  Thursday 
from  her  home  at  Point  Pleasant, 
to  aid  in  securing  an  appropria- 
tion for  a  Point  Pleasant 
Battle  Monument.  She  has  at- 
tended a  part  of  two  former  ses- 
sions of  the  Legislature  for  the 
same  purpose.  When  seen  by 
a  Mail  reporter  in  the  office  of 
her  husband  Judge  George  Pof- 
fenbarger, of  the  Supreme 
Court,  she  said  in  response  to 
the  question,  when  asked  what 
the  prospect  for  an  appropria- 
tion is?" 

"It  is  the  first  time  I  have  ever 
believed  we  would  get  an  appro- 
priation when  it  was  asked  for. 
I  believe  now  we  are  going  to  get 
it.  We  expect  to  get  a  recom- 
mendation for  an  appropriation 
through  the  Joint  Finance  Com- 


mittee, and  if  we  get  a  favorable 
report  from  the  committee  we 
have  "crossed  the  Alps'"  for 
there  is  positively  no  opposition 
to  it  this  year  outside  of  whether 
or  not  there  will  be  available 
funds." 

"What  amount  have  you  asked 
for,  Mrs.  Poffenbarger?" 

"i  had  a  most  courteous  hear- 
ing before  the  committee  who 
had  previously  heard  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Monument  Com- 
mittee and  I  asked  for  $25,000,00, 
payable  $5,000.00  annually." 

"But  can  the  state  make  an  ap- 
propriation  Governing  five 
years?" 

"No,  but  they  can  for  two  and 
the  appropriation  may  be  for  a 
monument  not  to  exceed  $25,000.- 
00  expense  to  the  state  of  West 
Virginia,  $5,00.00  of  which  is 
available  now  and  $5,000.00  next 
year,  and  the  rest  may  be  im- 
plied, as  in  the  case  of  the  appro- 
priation made  for  the  West  Vir- 
ginia Hospital  at  a  cost  of  $80,- 
000,  $10,000.00  of  which  was 
available  when  appropriated." 

Here  followed  the  history  of 
the  effort  made  for  the  erection 
of  a  monument. 

Mrs.  Poffenbarger  telegragh- 
ed  her  paper- 

• 'Charleston,  W.  Va., 

February  28,  1905. 
The  State  Gazette— 

The  Senate  at  6:30  P.  M.  pass- 
ed an  amendent  to  the  Appropri- 


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ation  Bill  of  $2,500.00  for  this  year 
and  $2,500.00  for  1906.  The  hill 
still  has  to  go  back  to  the  Mouse 
for  concurrence  and  if  it  tails 
there,  will  go  to  a  conference 
commitee." 

The  amendment  was  offered 
by  Senator  E.  S.  McCown,  of  the 
Fourth  Senatorial  District.  His 
speech  was  one  of  his  best  ef- 
forts while  Senator  Darst  work- 
ed heart  and  soul  for  the  appro- 
priation. The  amendment  failed 
to  pass  the  house,  but  was  saved 
in  the  Joint  Conference  com- 
mittee where  by  herculean  work 
the  building  of  a  battle  monu- 
ment at  Point  Pleasant  was  as- 
sured. The  state  had  once 
again  assumed  the  responsibility 
and  every  year  since  the  Legis- 
lature has  appropriated  money 
with  which  to  build  the  monu- 
ment. Except  this  appropria- 
tion for  1906  and  1907,  all  has 
been  vetoed  except  that  of 
$1,000.00  made  in  1909,  because 
of  lack  of  funds  as  announced 
by  Governor  Dawson. 

Feb,  15,  1906,  Hon.  James  A. 
Hughes,  who  was  pressing  Con- 
gress for  an  appropriation  for 
funds  with  which  to  build  the 
monument  wrote  as  follows  from 
Washington : 

Mrs.  LiviaSimpson-Poffenbarger 

Point  Pleasant,  W.  Va. 
I  am  in  receipt  of  a  letter  from 
Mr.  Austin  who  states  that  it  is 
the  opinion    of    the  Monument 


Committee  of  your  place  that  the 
amount  asked  for  be  reduced 
from  $50,000.00  to  $10,000.00." 

"The  amount  carried  in  the  bill 
does  not  amount  to  anything  as 
the  committee  would  only  appro- 
priate such  an  amount  as  they 
saw  fit  and  would  be  governed  by 
the  wishes  of  the  committee.  I 
will  introduce  another  bill  carry- 
ing $10,000.00  instead  of  $50,000.- 
00  as  in  the  present  bill.  I  had  a 
talk  with  Mr.  McCleary,  and  he 
told  me  that  the  committee  still 
had  under  consideration  the  ad- 
visability of  whether  they  would 
make  any  appropriations  outside 
of  the  City  of  Washington. 
So  far,  they  have  not  come  to  any 
conclusion.  I  had  a  talk  with 
Senator  Scott  in  regard  to  this 
appropriation  and  he  doubted 
very  much  whether  they  would 
make  any  appropriation  outside 
the  City  of  Washington  and  he 
advises  that  this  monument 
should  be  erected  and  that  it 
should  be  done  by  private  sub- 
scription and  in  addition  to  what 
the  State  had  alread}'  appropri- 
ated he  said  he  would  be  glad  to 
head  the  list  with  a  private  sub- 
scription." 

"Now  I  want  to  advise  you 
frankly  about  this,  if  the  Libra- 
ry Committee  of  the  House  re- 
fuses to  make  any  appropria- 
tions for  monuments,  outside  of 
the  City  of  Washington,  I  think 
it  will  be  useless  to  press  the 
matter  further,  and  I  think  it 


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would    be   well   to  consider   the 
suggestion  of  Senator  Scott. 

I  will  be  glad  to  hear  from  you 
in  reference  to  the  matter. 
Very  truly  yours, 

J.  A.  Hughes." 

To  the  above  letter,  Mrs.  Pof- 
fenbarger  replied: 

"We  do  not  ask  that  the  Con- 
gress of  the  United  States  build 
the  Battle  Monument  at  Point 
Pleasant  because  the  funds  can- 
not be  raised  by  private  sub- 
scription or  secured  as  an  ap- 
propriation from  the  State  of 
West  Virginia,  but  because  we 
want  the  Government  to  official- 
ly recognize  the  batttle  as  it  was 
in  truth  a  battle  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, indeed,  the  First  Battle  of 
the  Revolution,  and  no  matter 
how  insignificant  the  approation, 
it  the  bill  correctly  states  its 
status  we  will  be  content  to  raise 
the  money  necessary  as  best  we 
can,  although  we  want  as  large 
an  appropriation  as  we  can  get. 
While  we  appreciate  the  generosi- 
ty of  Senator  Scott,  should  he  do- 
nate the  entire  amount  necessary 
it  would  fail  in  our  main  purpose 
of  having  the  government  official- 
ly credit  the  battle  the  honor  it 
deserves  and  we  will  have  again 
to  decline  his  offer  and  insist 
that  you  both  press  the  matter 
before  Congress  so  vigorously  as 
to  ultimately  bring-  the  desired 
result.  Again  thanking  you  and 
Senator  Scott  for  your  past  ef- 


forts   and    expecting    renewed 
zeal,  I  am 

Very  truly 
Livia  Simpson-Poffenbarger." 

That  the  Congress  of  the  Un- 
ited States  was  still  importuned 
is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that  on 
December  4,  1907,  Senator  N.  B, 
Scott  introduced  Senate  Bill  160 
which  was  favorably  reported 
February  17.  1908,  without 
amendment,  as  follows: 

"A  BILL  to  aid  in  the  erection 
of  a  monument  or  memorial  at 
Point  Pleasant,  West  Virginia, 
to  commemorate  the  Battle  of 
tho  Revolution  fought  at  that 
point  between  the  Colonial  troops 
and  Indians  October  tenth, 
seventeen  hundred  and  seventy- 
four." 

An  identical  bill  was  introduc- 
ed in  the  lower  House  of  Con- 
gress by  Hon.  James  A.  Hughes. 

A  Telegram,  as  follows, 
brought  the  first  intelligence  to 
Point  Pleasant  that  the  bill  had 
passed  both  branches  of  Con- 
gress: 

Mrs.  LiviaSimpson-Poffenbarger 

Congress    appropriated     $10,- 

000.00  for   a  battle  monument  at 

Point   Pleasant  Congratulations. 

James  A.  Hughes. 
Washington,  D.  C    ' 

The  Monument  Commission 
got  busy  and  realizing  that  the 
introduction  of  new  methods  of 
monument  building,  lasting  as 


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the  pyramids  of  Egypt,  had 
been  introduced,  by  which  the 
monument  could  be  built  with  the 
money  available,  a  contract  was 
let  for  the  monument  at  a  cost  at 
the  factory  of  $15,000.00,  the 
shipment  and  erection  of  which 
would  make  a  total  cost  of  $16,- 
000.  The  monument  to  be  built 
of  Balfour  granite,  the  statue 
thereon  to  be  of  Westerly  gran- 
ite. The  shaft  is  an  obelisk 
with  a  base  twenty-four  feet 
square,  the  height  to  be  eighty- 
two  feet.  The  statue  is  to  be 
that  of  a  colonial  soldier  of  the 
primitive  Virginia  style,  dressed 
in  hunting  shirt,  coon  skin  cap, 
leather  breeches  and  long  rifle. 
The  whole  to  he  completed  for 
the  unveiling  of  the  monument 
on  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirty- 
fifth  anniversary  of  the  battle  of 
Point  Pleasant,  October,  10, 
1909. 

The  Monument  Commission 
on  June  10,  1909,  issued  the  fol- 
lowing announcement: 

"ATTENTION  CITIZENS. 

A  general  invitation  is  extend- 
ed for  a  citizen's  meeting  at  the 
Court  House  at  Point  Pleasant 
on  Thursday  June  10th  at  8  P. 
M.  to  make  preparations  for  the 
celebration  of  the  Battle  of  Point 
Pleasant,  the  unveiling  of  the 
monument  and  Home  Coming 
Week,  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Mayor  and  Civil  Authority  of  the 
town  of  Point  Pleasant,  and  in- 


terested   citizens  of    the   town, 
county  and  state. 
Signed, 

John  P.  Austin, 
President   of     the   Monument 
Committee.'" 

There  was  a  large  and  enthus- 
iastic meeting  held  in  response 
to  the  call.  Judge  John  Lamar 
Whitten,  Mayor  of  the  town,  who 
presided,  was  elected  as  the 
permanent  chairman  of  arrange- 
ments for  a  West  Virginia  Home 
Coming  Week,  Celebration  of  the 
Battle  and  Unveiling  of  the  Mon- 
ument, October  7-8-9-10,  1909. 
The  others  appointed  to  further 
the  success  of  the  proper  ob- 
servance of  the  battle  were  the 
following  Committees  in  charge 
of  the  Celebration. 

Organization. 

Crairman,  Mayor  John  L. 
WKitten. 

Secretary,  E.  Jacob  Somerville. 

Asst.  Secretary,  Warren  C. 
Whaley. 

Grand  Marshall,  Col.  John  P. 
R.  B.  Smith. 

Assistants,  Lewis  C.  Somer- 
ville, Peter  Higgins  Steenbergen, 
Edward  Barto  Jones. 

Committee  at  Large. 

Hon.  John  P.  Austin,  Presi- 
dent Monument  Commission; 
Monument  Commissioners,  Hon. 
V.  A.  Lewis  and  Mr.  C.  C.  Bow- 
yer;  Mayor,  Judge  John  L.  Whit- 
ten.  Col.  John  P.  R.  B.  Smith  and 


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Mrs.  Livia  Nye  Simpson-Poffen 

burger. 

Finance  Committee. 

Joseph  Friedman,  Chairman, 
Peter  Higgins  Steenbergen,  Ed- 
ward K.  Thomas,  Peter  S.  Lewis, 
Griff  T.  Smith,  Tol  Stribling, 
Hon.  J.  Samuel  Spencer,  John  G. 
Stortz,  Point  Pleasant;  R.  J.  Pat- 
terson, Maggie;  William  R. 
Thompson,  Huntington;  Charles 
.Cameron  Lewis,  Jr.,  Ex-Gover- 
nor Wm.  A.  McCorkle,  Hon.  Jno. 
O.  Dickenson,  Charleston;  Ex- 
Governor  A.  B.  Fleming,  Fair- 
mont. 

Invitation  Committee 

Governor  Wm.  E.  Glasscock, 
Senator  Stephen  B.  Elkins,  Sena- 
tor Nathan  B.  Scott,  Hon.  James 
A.  Hughes,  Judge  Ira  E.  Robin- 
son, Judge  George  Poffenbarger 
of  West  Virginia;  Col.  H.  R. 
Howard,  John  E.  Beller,  Robert 
E.  Mitchell,  B.  H.  Blagg,  Andrew 
Lewis  Boggess,  Charles  C.  Lew- 
is, H.  Green  Nease,  Hon.  George 
W.  Cossin,  James  M.  H.  Beale, 
Hon.  J.  Samuel  Spencer 
Judge  John  W.  English, 
Judge  Wm.  A.  Parsons,  Point 
Pleasant;  Hon.  E.  O.  Randall, 
Columbus,  Ohio;  Hon.  W.  Sid- 
ney Laidley,  William  Burdette 
Mathews,  Charles  C.  Lewis,  Sr., 
John  Q.  Dickenson  of  Charleston; 
Gen'l.  Charles  H.  Grosvenor  and 
Hon.  Jerry  Longfellow  Carpen- 
ter, Athens,  Ohio;  Hon,  Edmond 
Sehon,  Dr.  Lewis  V.  Guthrie 


and    Louis    Sehon  Pomeroy,    of 
Huntington. 

Trades   Display 

Robert  J.  Heslop,  Charles  K. 
Blackwood,  Charles  E.  Jones, 
David  S.  Snyder,  James  Walter 
Winden,  Mark  Shiflet,  Horton 
Roseberry,  Joseph  W.  Rhoades, 
Will  Filson,  John  C.  Franklin, 
Ed.  Lawhead,  H.  H.  Henry, 
C.  Frederick  Hess,  Captain 
C. '  H  o  m  e  r  V  a  r  i  a  n,  Rob- 
ert Kiger,  James  Stephenson, 
George  Miller,  John  Wells,  Geo. 
W.  M.  Hooff,  Alexander  B.  Mc- 
Culloch,  James  Cavenaugh, 
James  B.  Tippett,  F.  B.  Tippett. 
Lemuel  Shiflet,  Hugo  Juhling, 
Jr.,  Bertram  L.  Burdette,  Frank 
Fadley,  Enos  B.  Thomas,  H.  W. 
Ellis,  Dr.  Ed  McElfresh,  Jacob 
P.  Hetherington,  L.  J.  Coley, 
Peter  C.  McDade,  W.  A.  Wil- 
liams, Harry  M.  Langley. 

Decoration  and  Speakers  Stand 

Frank  Filson,  B.  Franklin,  Jr., 
Charles  Russell  McCulloch,  Wm. 
H.  H.  Gardner,  J.  Floyd  Burdett, 
S.  Waldo  Swisher,  Alonzo  Walk- 
er, Enos,  C.  Winger,  John  W.  C. 
Heslop,  Ed  A.  Arrington,  Ed- 
ward W.  Craig,  Geo.  P.  Gardner, 
Wm.  Tully,  John  Love,  Sam'l 
Lutton,  Fredrick  Capes,  Charles 
Dashner,  G.  E.  Mathews,  Mes- 
darnes  Harry  E.  Burnside,  Wm. 
Steenbergen,  Robert  E.  Mitchell, 
Edward  McElfresh,  Rush  H. 
Burnside,  Edward  J  Burnside, 
Lem  Shiflet,  Samantha  J.  Baum, 
Wm.  Steinbach,  Mrs.  M.  Fried- 


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man,  Mrs.  Kate  Williams,  Mrs. 
J.  W.  English,  Mrs.  Robert  P. 
Lynch,  Mrs.  Ella  Fenton,  Mrs. 
Horton  Roseberry,  Mrs,  E.  H. 
Woelffel,  Mrs.  Wm.  Kenny,  Mrs. 

E.  H.   Armstrong,    Mrs.   H.  A. 
Barbee,  Mrs.  James  B.  Tippett, 
Mrs.    Wm.    C.    Stortz,    Mrs.  J. 

F.  Burdett,  Mrs.  B.  Franklin,  Jr., 
Mrs.    George     Comstock,    Mrs. 
Joseph  H.  Holloway,  Mrs.  Asha- 
bel  Hughes,   Misses  Edith  Tip- 
pett,   Maud   Kisar,    Reba  Beale, 
Hattie  Price,  Mary  Lewis,  Venie 
and  Jessie  Thomas,  Mrs.  Homer 
Smith,    Mrs.   E.   B.  Jones,  Mrs. 
Wm.    E.   Hayman,   Mrs.    W.   C. 
Whaley,  Mrs.  Tol  Stribling. 

Advertising  Committee 

Homer  Smith,  Dr.  W.  P. 
Neale,  Marcus  Friedman,  War- 
ren C.  Whaley,  Charles  C.  Lewis, 
Edward  C.  Berridge,  Dr.  Ed. 
McElfresh,  John  F.  Lewis  and 
James  B.  Tippett. 

Entertainment  Committee 

Griff  T.  Smith,  Howard  L. 
Robey,  Lesley  L.  Neale,  Geo.  C. 
Somerville,  Dr.  Frank  V.  Butch- 
er, Ed  Filson,  Wm.  Steinbach, 
Howard  Long,  Geo.  W.  Long, 
John  L.  Hutchinson,  E.  H. 
Woelffel,  W.  W.  Riley,  R.  P. 
Liter,  Lem  Shiflet  Jr.,  Point 
Pleasant;  John  D.  Lewis,  Phil 
Walker,  John  Baker  White, 
Charleston;  Lycergus  N.  Knight 
Maggie;  M.  G.  Tyler,  H.  E.  Spil- 
man,  Dr.  Richard  Stone,  Spilman, 
Dr.  Charles  Petty,  Hartford; 
Mesdames  John  Samuel  Spencer. 


Charies  Clendenin  Bowyer,  John 
L.    Whitten,   Charles  C.    Lewis, 
John  Daniel  McCulloch,  H.  Green 
Nease,     John     W.     C.     Heslop, 
L.  J.   Williamson,  Rankin  Wiley, 
John     McCulloch,     Frank      Fil- 
son, Wm.  P.  Neale,  Peter  Hig- 
gins    Steenbergen,    Hiram    R. 
Howard,  J.   H.     Wade,  Jackson 
Lee  Pannel,  Charles  Russell  Mc- 
Culloch, James  W.  Windon,  Pat- 
rick  F.   Ryan,  John   P.  Austin, 
Robert    P.     Liter,    Howard^   L. 
Robey,   E.   Barto  Jones,   Joseph 
Friedman,  E.  B.  Sisler,  B.  Frank 
lin,   Jr.,    E.    E.   Thomas,  Mary 
Margaret  Bryan,  Homer  Smith, 
Ben  Franklin,  Sr  ,  S.  W.  Swish- 
er,    Walter       Lincoln;      Misses 
Josephine    Howard,    Irene  Bow- 
yer, Lillie  Lee   Hogg,   Elizabeth 
Harding  Hogg,    Julia   Polsley, 
Ada    Gilmore,     Cornelia  Smith, 
V  e  v  a     Haptonstall,     Margaret 
Lynn  Neale,  Gertrude  Howard, 
Edith  Tippett,  Venie  and  Jessie 
Thomas,    Kate  Stribling,    Lena 
L.    Roseberry,    of  Point  Pleas- 
ants;   Mrs.    Geo.     W.  Gist    and 
Miss       Maggie     Hayman,      Le- 
tart;   Mrs.    W.    L.    Lawson  and 
Miss   May  Jackson,  New  Haven; 
Mrs.  M.  M.  Brown,   Mrs.  D.  E. 
Newton,  Hartford;  Mrs.    Joseph 
H.  Windon,  Maggie;   Mrs.  V.  A. 
Lewis,  Mrs.  W.  E.  Ruttencutter, 
Mrs.    L.    E.    Bletner,    Misses 
Maud  and  Annie  Lewis,    Mason; 
Mesdames  John    McCoach,   Ed- 
mond  Sehon,    Columbus   Sehon, 
Taylor  Vinson,  Wm.  R.  Thomp- 


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son,  Mary  Lesage,  Margaret 
Lynn  Harvey,  C.  R.  Thompson 
and  James  A.  Hughes,  Hunting- 
ton;  Mrs.  Kate  Sterrett,  Mrs. 
Wm.  H.  Vaught,  Mrs.  John 
Thornberg,  Five  Mile;  Mrs.  M. 
Ella  Hutcbinson,  Henderson; 
Miss  Lizzie  Smith,  McCausland; 
Miss  Francis  M.  Maupin,  Ar- 
buckle;  Mrs.  Charles  E.  Mc- 
Culloch,  Five  Mile;  Miss  Rhoda 
Long,  Mrs.  Monroe  Poffenbar- 
ger,  South  Side;  Mrs.  C.  A. 
Green,  Otia;  Mrs.  James  Hen- 
derson, Five  Mile;  Dr.  A.  G. 
Martin,  F.  M.  Middleton,  Win- 
field;  Dr.  C.  McGill,  Red 
House;  Robert  Brown,  O.  F. 
Stribling,  Apple  Grove;  John  H. 
S.  Spencer,  Graham  Station;  F. 
C.  Hute,  John  C.  Levzey,  L. 
Quickie,  Thos.  L.  Finney,  Pliny, 
Frank  Dunn,  South  Side;  George 
L.  Sebrell,  E.  B.  Nease,  Ar- 
buckle;  Will  Armstrong,  Gallipo- 
lis;  Dr.  Blake,  R.  E.  Blake,  Hen- 
ry McCoy,  J.  B.  Frazier,  Buf- 
falo; Robt.  Somerville,  Maggie; 
W.  W.  Cornwall,  Glen  wood; 
Earl  Henry,  Clifton;  A.  G.  W. 
Brinker,  A.  C.  Cross,  Thos.  Z. 
Blessing,  Letart. 

Speakers  Committee 

Col.  H.  R.  Howard,  Capt.  W. 
H.  Howand,  Wm.  E.  Hayman, 
Judge  George  Poffenbarger, 
Robt.  L.  Hutchinson,  Hon.  J.  S. 
Spencer,  Benjamin  Franklin,  Sr., 
Enos  B.  Thomas,  Dr.  E.  J. 
Mossman,  Carlisle  L.  Whaley, 
Rev.  J.  H.  Gibbons,  Rev.  Pullin, 


Rev.   R.  P.   Bell,   O.   A.   Roush, 
Geo.  McClintock,  Capt.  Rush  H. 
Burnside,  Benjamin  H.  Blagg. 
Music  Committee 

E,  B.  Sisler,  J.  H.  Norton.  B. 
F.  Gibbs,  A.  C.  Van  Gilder, 
Charles  K.  Black  wood,  Lew  Mc- 
Millen,  Rankin  Wiley,  John  G. 
Aten,  Wm.  Steenbergen,  Dr. 
John  Fadley,  Mesdames  Mary 
Margaret  Bryan,  J.  M.  H.  Beale, 
Carlisle  L.  Whaley,  Eliza  Wag- 
goner, Charles  Filson,  Nannie  E. 
Hale,  Kossuth  T.  McKinstry, 
Misses  Josephine  Beale,  Ger- 
trude Howard,  and  Margaret 
Malone,  Mrs.  W.  C.  Whaley. 

Program  Committee 

Lewis  C.  Somerville,  Judge, 
George  Poffenbarger,  Col.  Hiram 
R.  Howard,  Howard  L.  Robey, 
Robt.  L.  Hutchinson,  Charles 
Buxton,  Judge  John  W.  English. 

Transportation  Committee 

Wm.  C.  Jordan,  L.  C.  Kuhn, 
Moulton  Houk,  F.  Gerald  Mus- 
grave,  B.  H  Blagg,  Wallace  A. 
Barnett,  John  McCulloch  Dr. 
Hugh  A.  Barbee,  Wm.  W.Bryan, 
Ed.  C.  Berridge,  Capt.  E.  A. 
Burnside,  Fred  Smith,  Capt.  E, 
E.  Varian,  Capt.  John  Thorn- 
berg,  Gus  Fry,  Jos.  L.  Ruth, 
Elmer  Nutter,  E.  B.  Martin, 
Capt.  Gordan  C.  Greene,  J.  W 
Hooper. 

School   Children 

Prof.  H.  E.  Cooper  of  Point 
Pleasant  and  the  teachers  of 
Mason  County. 

Advisory  Committee 

Messrs.  John  W.  Steenbergen, 


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Beale;  Wm.  J.  Keister,  Ashton; 
Clinton  Poffenbarger,  Mason 
Long,  Beech  Hill;  James  W. 
Long-,  Hon.  Jabez  Beard,  South 
Side;  E.  F.  Bletner,  W.  E.  Rut- 
tencutter,  Mason;  Charles  Juhl- 
ing,  Hon.  J.  M.  Hensley,  J.  M. 
Chapman,  D.  E.  Newton,  Capt. 
M.  M.  Brown,  Hartford;  Judge 
W.  W.  Jackson,  Geo.  N.  Capehart, 
W.  L.  Lawson,  C.  T.  Bumgarner, 
New  Haven;  Geo.  W.  Gist,  Dan 
Sayre,  Wm.  Klingensmith,  Le- 
tart;  Philip  Click,  Willow  Tree, 
Judge  Byrd  Stone,  W.  P.  Smith, 
Fred  Sullivan,  Wm.  Jividen, 
Charles  F.  Thomas  Leon;  Judge 
W.  H.  Vaught,  Robert  P.  Mor- 
ris, Henry  Fry,  Henderson; 
James  Henderson,  Rankin  Hill, 
Henderson;  Hon.  Jas.  L.  Knight, 
Messrs.  Asa  Musgrave,  James 
W.  Windon,  Jos.  H.  Windon,  H. 
J.  Norton,  Judge  B.  J.  Redmond, 
Dr.  A.  R.  Girard,  Hon.  Geo. 
Parsons,  Pleasant  Flats;  Capt. 
L.  S.  Parsons,  John  R.  Couch, 
Hearne.  W.  H.  Sayre,  Chas.  W. 
Hogsett,  Wm.  H.  Rowsey,  C.  A. 
Green,  of  Hannan  District,  Shep- 
herd W.  Moore,  Elwell;  Geo.  W. 
Pullin,  C.  G.  P.  Musgrave,  Deb- 
by;  Geo.  J.  Meadough,  James  W. 
Kindey,  W.  H.  Clarke,  J.  W. 
Bryan,  Ash  Hughes,  W.  H.  Zum- 
bro,  Point  Pleasant;  John  Mc- 
Causland,  Jr.,  Jno,  R.  Couch,  B. 
K  Bell,  Hearne,  R.  W.  Bateman, 
S.  A.  McNiel,  Mercers  Bottom, 
Judge  J.  L.  Thome,  Wyoma. 
Col.  Jerome T.Bowyer,  Winfield; 


B.  J.  Lerner,  Hartford;  John 
J.  Dower,  Letart;  Jas.  T.  Ed- 
wards, Clifton;  H.  C.  Tur- 
ner, Mason;  David  Caldwell,  Gal- 
lipolis  Ferry;  Judge  A.  M.  Pugh, 
Col.  John  L.  Vance,  Columbus, 
Ohio;  Gen'l.  John  McCausland, 
McCausland;  James  M.  Nye, 
Marrietta,  Ohio;  Mrs.  Samaria, 
H.  Palmer;  Athens  Ohio;  Miss 
Margaret  Lynn  Price,  Lewis- 
burg,  Mrs.  Miram  Donnally, 
Mrs.  E.  W.  Wilson,  Charles- 
ton; Mrs.  Sanders  Johnston, 
Dr.  Adeline  E.  Portman, 
Washington,  D.  C.;  Mrs.  Anna 
S.  Greene,  Culpeper,  Virginia; 
Miss  Mary  C.  Nye,  Marrietta, 
Ohio;  Mrs.  Sophia  Dale,  Belpre, 
Ohio;  Mrs.  M.  C.  Scott,  Pomer.oy, 
Ohio 

The  State  Gazette  of  August 
15th,  gives  the  following: 

"On  Monday  August  2nd,  1009, 
at  11  a.  m.  the  steam  whistle  on 
Captain  Charles  Homer  Varian's 
pumpboat,  lying  in  the  mouth  of 
Kanawha  river,  sounded  a  gJad 
cry  that  was  lustily  joined  in  by 
the  many  steamboats  lying  in 
harbor.  Our  people  came  out  in 
great  crowds  to  learn  the  cause, 
and  the  on  coming  tide  of  people 
were  directed  to  Tu-Endie-Wei 
Park,  where  had  just  been  set 
the  apex  stone  that  completed 
the  stone  work  of  the  splendid 
Balfour  granite  monument,  com- 
memorating The  First  Battle  of 
the  Revolution,  fought  at  Point 
Pleasant,  October  10th,  1774. 


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It  was  an  occasion  that  for 
many  years  has  been  devoutly 
wished  for,  and  there  were  many 
upon  the  grounds  prior  to  the 
blowing-  of  the  whistles,  who 
for  years  had  watched  every 
step  of  the  preparation  for 
the  monument  building  Among 
them  were  Mrs.  J.  D.  McCul- 
loch,  who  was  a  member  of  the 
Ladies  Monument  Association, 
that  put  by  the  first  contribution, 
which  with  its  accumulations, 
represented  $2,000  invested  in 
the  Monument;  Mr.  C.  C.  Bow- 
yer  of  the  Monument  Commis- 
sion, who  have  so  faithfully  la- 
bored in  the  cause  entrusted  to 
them  by  the  State;  and  Mrs. 
Poffenbarger  whose  interest  has 
never  lag-ged,  and  it  was  her 
little  son,  Perry  Simpson-Poffen- 
barger,  who  suggested,  and  in- 
duced Capt.  Varian  to  start  the 
whistles. 

The  monument  has  been  erect- 
ed so  speedily  that  our  people 
can  scarcely  believe  it  is  so  near- 
ly completed.  This  is  accounted 
for  by  the  fact  that  the  stones 
were  cut  and  numbered  and 
ready  for  placing-,  and  needed  lit- 
tle cutting-  when  they  came  upon 
the  grounds.  The  Van-Amringe 
Granite  Company  of  Boston,  are 
the  contractors,  with  Mr.  J.  E. 
Amedon  of  Merchants  Depot,  of 
Vermont,  as  the  superintendent 
of  construction  here.  Captain 
Charles  Fredrick  Hess  was  the 
contractor,  not  only  for  the 


splendid  cement  walks  and  walls, 
but  for  the  cement  work  of  the 
Monument,  and  the  great  under- 
footing-  was  laid  prior  to  June  7th, 
when  the  first  carload  of  granite 
reached  here. 

On  June  9th,  the  corner  stone 
was  laid.  There  were  no  cere- 
monies attending- it  and  no  depos- 
its made  save  that  of  a  small  coin 
of  the  issue  1909,  the  year  of  the 
Monument  construction. 
However,  as  is  the  custom  in  the 
erection  of  such  structures,  a  box 
was  deposited  in  this  monument. 
It  was  found  that  in  the  cen- 
ter tube  in  the  top  section  imme- 
diately under  the  great  cap  stone 
that  binds  the  building,  there  was 
room  to  admit  a  box  three  inches 
in  diameter  and  twelve  inches 
long.  Filson  Brothers  were  call- 
ed upon  to  construct  a  copper  box 
of  these  dimensions  and  make  it 
air  tight.  In  it  were  deposited  an 
Industrial  Edition  of  The  State 
Gazette  of  the  issue,  of  February 
2nd,  1905,  upon  which  was  written 
the  following  inscription: 

"Deposited,  Monday,    August 
2d,  1909,  the  date  of  the    setting- 
of  the  cap  stone    of    the    Point 
Pleasant  Battle  Monument,  by 
Nathan  Simpson  Poffenbar- 
ger and  Perry  Simpson  Pof- 
fenbarger, sons"  and    Nata- 
lie Simpson  Bryan,  niece  of 
Geo.  and   Livia    Nye    Simp- 
son-Poff  enbarg-er. ' ' 
A  copy  of  the  diary  written  by 
Margaret    Lynn    Lewis,  wife  of 


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John  Lewis  the  emigrant  and 
a  founder  of  the  chy  of 
Staunton,  Virginia,  was  placed 
in  the  tube  upon  which  was  the 
following'  inscription: 

"Deposited,  August  2nd,  1909, 
the  date  of  the  setting  of  the  cap- 
stone of  the  Point  Pleasant  Bat- 
tle Monument,  by 

Sallie      Lewis       McCulloch, 
(Mrs.     J.     D.     McCulloch) 
Great,  Great   Grand   daugh- 
ter of  Margaret  Lynn  Lewis 
and  Great  Grand    daughter 
of  Col.  Charles  Lewis.  Sallie 
Lewis  McCulloch   (Mrs.    P. 
H.       Steenbergen),      Great, 
Great    Grand     daughter    of 
Col.  Chas.  Lewis.  >' 
An    Indian    arrow  bead  taken 
from  the  ground  when  the  exca- 
vation was  made,  was  put  in   the 
box  and  with  it  a    slip    of    paper 
bearing  the  following": 

"This  Indian  arrow  head  is 
deposited  by  C.  F.  Hess,  con- 
tractor for  the  cement  work  of 
this  monument.  It  was  found 
when  the  excavation  was  made." 
The  most  important  deposit 
made  however,  was  a  copy  of 
"The  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant," 
bearing  the  following  inscription: 
"Deposited,  Monday,  August 
2d,  1909,  the  date  of  the  setting 
of  the  cap  stone  of  the  Point 
Pleasant  Battle  Monument. 

"The  illustrations  and  last 
pages  are  omitted  on  account  of 
the  inability  of  the  printer  to 
finish  the  volume  bv  the  date  of 


the  completion  of  the  monument. 
Livia  Nye  Simpson-Poffenbarger 
The  Author." 

This  was  the  most  valuable 
because,  though  not  quite  com- 
pleted, it  carried  the  most  com- 
plete roster  of  the  participants 
of  the  battle  ever  as  yet  publish- 
ed, that  of  1080  men  who  partici- 
pated at  Point  Pleasant  and  were 
entitled  to  share  in  the  honors  of 
this  victory. 

When  the  last  stone  bad  been 
set  in  place,  Mr.  Amedon  pre- 
sented Mrs.  Poffenbarger  the 
two  remaining  blocks  of  granite 
from  which  will  be  made  sou- 
venirs of  the  monument. 

The  statue  which  is  to  be 
placed  on  a  base  in  the  front  of 
the  monument  has  not  reached 
here,  nor  have  the  eight  bronze 
plates  in  bas  relief,  two  of 
which  bearing  the  coat  of  arms 
of  the  United  States  and  of  West 
Virginia,  and  six  of  which  bear 
the  inscription  of  the  killed  and 
wounded  and  the  officers  com- 
manding the  army,  but  they 
have  been  shipped  and  will  be 
here  to  be  put  in  place  by  Mr. 
Amedou  upon  his  return  from 
St.  Louis,  less  than  three  weeks 
hence.  Upon  his  return,  the 
monument  will  be  pointed  up, 
the  statue  and  plates  set  and 
the  monument  veiled  ready  for 
the  ceremonial  attendant  upon 
the  unveiling  of  October  9th, 
1909. 


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INDEX 

APPROPRIATIONS 

By  Congress 131 

By  Ladies  Monument  Association 96 

By  West  Virginia  Legislature 110  129 

CELEBRATIONS 

October  10,  1860 96 

October  10,  1774 102 

October  10,  1901 124 

October  10,  1909 132 

DEDICATION  OF  TU-ENDIE-WEI  PARK 

Description  of  the  Battle 26-28-29 

History  of  the  Monument  Building- 95 

Killed  and  Wounded 28 

Roster  of  Participants 84 

BIOGRAPHIES 

Bailey  James , 72 

Bledsoe  Anthony 55 

Bowen  Wm 68 

Bracken  Matthew 78 

Breckenridge  Alexander. 66 

Cameron  Chas.  E ...  57 

Campbell  Arthur 48 

Campbell  John • .  . 49 

Campbell  Robert 75 

Campbell  Wm 47 

Carter  John 75 

Christian  Wm 54 

Clendenin  Archibald     64 

Clendenin  George :  • 65 

Clendenin  William 63 

Cocke  Wm 55 

Cooper  Leonard i 58 

Cornstalk 80 

Crawford  John 54 

Crockett  Joseph 50 

Curry  James • 77 


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Davis  Azariah 47 

Dickinson  John 55 

Drake  Joseph 69 

Draper  John 47 

Dunmore  Lord 78 

Eastham  George 61 

Edmiston  Wm 69 

Ewing  Wm 71 

Fleming-  Col.  Wm 44 

Floyd  Capt.  John 66 

Frogg  John ....    73 

Gibbs  Luman 60 

Hackett  Thomas 76 

Hamilton  Wm 78 

Harlon  Silas 57 

Harrison  Benjamin 52 

Harrod  James 53 

Henderson  John 60 

Herbert  Wm 66 

Hughes  Ellis 56 

Hughey  Joseph 56 

Ingles  Thomas 69 

Ingles  Wm 66 

Jones  John 46 

Kimberling  Elijah 71 

Knox  James 71 

Lewis  Gen'l  Andrew 39 

Lewis  Col.  Charles 40 

Lewis  Benjamin 67 

Lewis  Mayor  John  (son  of  Wm.) ...    63 

Lewis  Capt.  John  (son  of  Thos.) 73 

Lewis  Capt.  John  (son  of  Gen'l  Andrew) 76 

Logan 79 

Logan  Benjamin 64 

Logan  John 65 

Love  Philip 56 

Lyle  John 73 

Madison  John 71 

Matthews  George .    .    49 

Matthews  Sampson SO 

Mayes  Joseph 48 


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Me  A  ffcc  George 70 

M  cAtTee  James 70 

McAffee  Robert 70 

McAffee  Samuel 70 

McAffee  Wm 70 

McCorkle  Wm 73 

McDowell  Capt.  (Judge)   Samuel 52 

McKee  Wm. 71 

Moffatt  George 72 

Montgomery  James. 54 

Moore  Gen.  Andrew 49 

Moore  Wm 73 

Murry  John ' 72 

Newman  Walter 73 

Posey  Thomas 62 

Pauley  Henry 70 

Ramsey  Joseph 68 

Robertson  James 51 

Robertson  Wm 73 

Russell  Wm 54 

Sawyer  John 56 

See  Michael 77 

Sevier  John 52 

Sevier  Valentine  - 53 

Shelby  Evan 45 

Shelby  Isaac • 45 

Slaughter  Geo •  •  70 

Slaughter  Francis :  • 70 

Slaughter  Lawrence 70 

Slaughter  Wm ...  54 

Smith  John 

Simms  Charles 72 

Steele  John 56 

Stuart  John   .  .  61 

Todd  John 57 

Trigg  Stephen .66 

Trimble  James 

Trotter  Wm 

Van  Bibber  John 

Van  Bibber  Isaac 

Van  Bibber  Jesse 58 

Van  Bibber  Peter 58 

Warwick  Jacob ' 57 


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